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The Wilfred Owen Bursary - awarded each year to a promising poet, in the form of a course at the Arvon Writers' Centre at Ty Newydd, near Criccieth in North Wales - has this year been given to two worthy recipients: Carole Powell from Narberth in Pembrokeshire, and Andrea Gosling from East Grinstead in Sussex. The WOA is grateful to Ty Newydd for the financial help which has made it possible to award two bursaries this year.
 
The course will take place in April, and the tutors will be Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales - and also, of course, the most recent holder of the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award - and Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate. We congratulate Carole and Andrea, and we look forward to hearing from them about their experience of the course, and to seeing more of their work.

"The Humane Society" is the debut pamphlet from Jodie Hollander, recent recipient of a Wilfred Owen Association bursary.

"Romantic, surreal and tender, it paints a family portrait that is a mixture of memoir, ghost story and artistic obsession, as well as being an elegy for an older, more mannered, world".

Jodie is originally from Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington DC. An alumni of the Creative Writing MA at Bath Spa University, her poetry has appeared in a number of poetry magazines and journals both in the UK and America. She has also received a Fullbright Scholarship and is due to receive a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013.  She was awarded the Wilfred Owen Association bursary to study at Ty Newydd in 2012.

The Humane Society is available from tall-lighthouse publishing

Click here for a scan of the cover

"The Glass Elephants", a sample poem from the pamphlet, can be downloaded from here.

A new public artwork inspired by Wilfred Owen’s time at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, has gone on display.

Entitled Hillside and designed by artist Lara Greene, the distinctive work was commissioned by the local community council and is located outside the Post Office on Colinton Road.

Wilfred Owen met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon at the former hydro in 1917.

Read more on the Edinburgh Evening News website

The Government will not prevent Tranmere Rovers building houses on Ingleborough Road Memorial Playing Fields in Birkenhead. 

Wirrall Council approved the club's application to build up to 90 houses in October.

The building work was stalled while the Department for Communities and Local Government decided whether to scrutinise the application.

But Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, has now passed up the opportunity to intervene because the department has to be "very selective" about which applications it looks at.

More in the Daily Telegraph, 6 December 2012

The plans were opposed by the Wilfred Owen Association.

Thousands of people cast their votes on the Shropshire Star’s website to pick their favourite Salopians from a shortlist of nine nominees. Wilfred Owen topped the male category, receiving more than 51 per cent of the vote.

Read more on the Shrewsbury Star website (November 27th)