Roz kaveney biography of christopher

  • Roz Kaveney (born 9 July 1949) is a British writer, critic, and poet, best known for her critical works about pop culture and for being a core member of the.
  • Roz Kaveney, the 72-year-old novelist, critic, queer elder and revered British trans activist, tells PinkNews about her work as a poet.
  • Roz Kaveney studied Latin in grammar school before going on to become a novelist, critic and icon of British queer and trans activism.

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    Glamourous Rags

    Published by Chatto and Windus, 388 pp. £25

    Identity is a story we tell ourselves, but, if it is an illusion, it is, like the persistence of vision, an illusion which makes it possible to exist at all. When Isherwood attempted, in the early 1970s, to reconstruct his forty-year old self and his life in the Hollywood of the immediately post-war period, his use of the third-person starts as misplaced honesty and ends as disingenuousness - he had entirely good religious motives for wanting to break down the imperial ego, but the old Adam came rampaging back with a fair amount of what comes to look uncommonly like swanking.

    It is impressive that Isherwood could remember, twenty years later, such a proliferation of sexual encounters with so very many young men; given that he was working from the vague hints of an appointment diary, and can reconstruct in such detail who screwed whom, awe becomes almost overwhelming. It is also remarkable that, in these years, save

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    Roz Kaveney

    Roz Kaveney(born 1949) is a writer, critic, and poet, best known for her critical works about pop culture and for being a core member of the "Midnight Rose" fantasy wrting collective.[1][2]Kaveney's works include fiction and non-fiction, poetry, reviewing, and editing.[3]

    Biography

    Kaveney attended Pembroke College, Oxford, where she participated in a poetry group that had a particular interest in "Martian poetry" (which employs unusual metaphors to render everyday experiences and objects unfamiliar) and shared a flat with the poet Christopher Reid. She gave up poetry in her twenties, not resuming it until she reached her sixties. Kaveney's poetry was originally written in a rhythmic free verse, although her work later shifted into formalism. For a time she earned a living as a sex worker, and in later years has worked as a transgender rights activist.[4]

    " I was reared Catholic but got over it, was born male but got over it, stopped sleeping with boys abo

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    Roz Kaveney

    Roz Kaveney is a poet, critic and novelist resident in London. Her novel Tiny Pieces of Skull won the Lambda in 2016; her recent publications include the novel Revelations and a poetic memoir The Great Good Time. In 2018 she published original versions of the complete poems of the Roman poet Catullus with Sad Press.

    This interview with Henry Stead took place (in writing) in Spring 2023. 

    A PDF file of this conversation is available for download.

     

    Henry Stead: Roz, thank you for agreeing to this interview. I have really enjoyed getting to know your versions of Catullus. They are remarkably true poems. In them I feel the presence of a consistent and consistently open Catullan persona, who seems also energised by your own personal experience. The way you translate his ancient poetry to contemporary idioms brings sometimes new and unfamiliar shades of interest to well-known poems, but it also drags int

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