Claire Trévien Explained

Claire Trévien
Birth Date:24 Sep 1985
Birth Place:Pont-l'Abbé, France
Occupation:Poet, academic
Nationality:British
French
Period:2010 - present

Claire Trévien (born 1985) is a poet and academic.

Biography

She was born in Pont-l'Abbé, France in 1985. She obtained a PhD from the University of Warwick in 2012 on 'Revolutionary Prints as Spectacle'[1] and has been published in a number of scholarly journals with a forthcoming book.[2]

Trévien's first pamphlet, Low-Tide Lottery, was published by Salt in 2011.[3] It was followed by the publication of her first collection The Shipwrecked House in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. This collection was voted the reader's choice and longlisted in the Guardian First Book Award.[4] A poem from the collection was also highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2014. The collection was widely reviewed in Poetry London,[5] The Warwick Review,[6] For Books' Sake,[7] in numerous blogs,[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] as well as on YouTube.

Her poetry has appeared in numerous newspaper, magazines and anthologies including The Guardian,[13] The Sunday Times,[14] and Best British Poetry 2012.[15] She was on the Huffington Post's list of 5 British Poets to Watch in 2014.[16]

Trévien's collection The Shipwrecked House was co-commissioned by Ledbury Poetry Festival as a one-woman show and toured the UK in autumn 2014, funded by the Arts Council.[17]

On 22 November, Trévien wrote 100 poems in a day, raising over £600 for chosen charity Refuge (United Kingdom charity).[18]

She was the Poetry School's first digital Poet-in-Residence in November 2013.[19]

Her second collection of poetry, Astéronymes, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2016.[20] Trévien founded and co-edits Sabotage Reviews, a website that reviews independent literature. She co-edits Verse Kraken with Tori Truslow, a journal of hybrid art. With Odette Toilette she co-organizes Penning Perfumes,[21] a creative collaboration between perfumers and poets. They toured the UK in early 2013 thanks to Arts Council Funding. She was the editor of the National Student Drama Festival magazine Noises Off from 2010 to 2012.

Works

References

  1. Revolutionary prints as spectacle. Claire. Trevien. 2012. University of Warwick. wrap.warwick.ac.uk. PhD.
  2. Web site: Claire Trévien painter and poet. Claire Trévien.
  3. Web site: Low-Tide Lottery. Salt.
  4. News: Readers choose Guardian first book award's 10th finalist. Liz. Bury. 31 July 2013. The Guardian.
  5. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-01-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140112154655/http://poetrylondon.co.uk/magazine/autumn-13 . 12 January 2014 . dmy-all .
  6. Web site: Warwick Writing Programme.
  7. Web site: The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trévien. For Books' Sake . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130928205958/http://forbookssake.net/2013/09/24/shipwrecked-house/ . 2013-09-28.
  8. http://houseofblog.co.uk/2013/10/20/book-review-the-shipwrecked-house/ Book review
  9. Web site: [Review] The Shipwrecked House – Claire Trevien Annexe ]. annexemagazine.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140112153613/http://annexemagazine.com/review-the-shipwrecked-house-claire-trevien/ . 2014-01-12.
  10. Web site: Making the Familiar Strange: Claire Trévien | Gareth Prior. 22 July 2013.
  11. Web site: The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trévien. 4 June 2013.
  12. Web site: The Shipwrecked House: A Graph Review. December 2013.
  13. Web site: The Saturday poem: Communion. TheGuardian.com. 2 August 2013.
  14. Web site: The Shipwrecked House I, by Claire Trévien | The Sunday Times. . 12 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140112154330/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/theweek/poetscorner/article1361180.ece . 12 January 2014 .
  15. Web site: The Best British Poetry . 7 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140516200251/http://bestbritishpoetry.co.uk/ . 16 May 2014 . dead .
  16. Web site: 5 British Poets to Watch in 2014. 26 December 2013. HuffPost.
  17. Web site: Penned in the Margins | The Shipwrecked House. 18 February 2024.
  18. http://campus.poetryschool.com/the-100-poems-challenge/ The 100 poems challenge - CAMPUS
  19. http://campus.poetryschool.com/interview-with-claire-trevien/ Meet our Digital-Poet-in-Residence: an interview with Claire Trévien - CAMPUS
  20. http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/02/asteronymes/ Astéronymes
  21. Web site: Observations: Words make a lot of scent: poetry in the form of perfume. 26 April 2012. The Independent.

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