Yvonne Green Explained

Yvonne Green
Birth Name:Yvonne Tamara Bitty Mammon
Birth Date:1957 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Finchley, London, England
Occupation:Poet, translator, writer, barrister
Nationality:British
Notableworks:Boukhara, After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin, Selected Poems and Translations, her contribution to The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, Honoured, Hanisu Yi, Jam & Jerusalem.
Spouse:Brian Green QC
Children:Charlotte, Jasmine, Bertie, Rachael
Awards:Poetry Business Prizewinner, Buxton Prizewinner, British Poetry Book Society Recommended Translator and Commended Poet

Yvonne Green[1] (8 April 1957 – 16 April 2024) was an English poet, translator, writer and barrister.

Life and career

Green, who lived in Hendon and Herzliya,[2] was born in Finchley, north London on 8 April 1957. She attended the Henrietta Barnett School and then went on to study law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Green was called to the Bar in New York and England and first practised in New York at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and the Legal Aid Society and later in London in the Inner Temple but retired as a commercial barrister in 1999 so she could publish the poetry that she had always written.[3] [4] [5] She was of Bukharan Jewish heritage.[6]

Her first pamphlet, Boukhara, was published in 2007 and won The Poetry Business 2007 Book & Pamphlet Competition.[7] Her first full-length collection, The Assay was published in 2010 and as a result of an award from Celia Atkin and Lord Gavron was translated into Hebrew in 2013, under the title HaNisuyi and published in Israel by Am Oved. Honoured, her most recent work has "telling detail and great emotional power" according to Alan Brownjohn. In Honoured, Green juxtaposes the idealised vision of Israel with the Zionist narrative of the diaspora.[8] Green was Poet-in-Residence to Spiro's Ark from 2000 to 2003, Norwood Ravenswood in 2006, Casa Shalom from 2007 to 2008, Jewish Woman's Aid from 2007 to 2009 and from 2013, to Baroness Scotland of Asthall's Global Foundation To End Domestic Violence (EDV GF).

After the November 2015 Paris attacks Green read translations from Hebrew as well as some of her own work at a Poetry and Music of the Middle East event in St Albans.[9] On 6 June 2016 Green's poem, "The Farhud: Baghdad's Shabu'ot 1st and 2nd June 1941", was read in the Israeli Knesset to commemorate the Farhud.[10] On 3 July 2017 Green read out Bejan Matur's poems at "The Kurdish Sisterhood" event organised by the Exiled Lit Cafe at the Poetry Café.[11] She convened two monthly groups, one at Hendon Library called "Wall of Words" and the second at JW3, Europe's largest Jewish cultural centre, called "Taking the Temperature".[12] [13] She also regularly gave readings and talks on translating Semyon Lipkin.

Awards and honours

Published works

Poetry collections

Translations

From Russian

From Punjabi

Pamphlets and limited editions

Published periodicals

Translated publications

Three of her poems were published in translation in the Summer 2006 edition of Dimui (Beit Moreshet B'Yerushalayim), Out of the Ordinary, Bibi and Souriya.
A grant from Celia Atkin and Lord Gavron enabled Green's "The Assay" to be translated into Hebrew. They were then published in Israel by Am Oved under the title HaNisuyi (הניסוי) [14]

Writings

A conversation with Louise Glück

Louise Glück gave a rare interview to Green which was published in PN Review 196 in December 2010.[15]

Reviews

Green has reviewed the works of other poets. She has reviewed Daniel Weissbort in the April/May 2007 edition of the London Magazine.[16]

Gaza reporting

In 2008 Green wrote "Reflections on a Visit to Shderot" that appeared on the Freedom in a Puritan Age website.[17] Five days after Operation Cast Lead, Green entered the Gaza Strip to see the situation for herself after hearing the media reports throughout the war. She then wrote a number of pieces from her experience. She wrote a report entitled "A Verbatim Note on a Visit to Gaza". Green also wrote an op-ed article entitled "Puzzled in Gaza"[18] that featured in The Jerusalem Post[19] and the Boston Globe where she stated, "What I saw was that there had been precision attacks made on all of Hamas's infrastructure…most of Gaza…was visibly intact." Green also had was also interviewed by The Jewish Chronicle[20] and Bridges for Peace about her experiences.

Radio features

Readings and events

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yvonne Green. Poetry Business. 18 February 2015. 10 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180210062223/http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/yvonne-green. dead.
  2. Book: Green. Yvonne. The Legal Studies Forum. Western Newspaper Publishing Inc.. 481. Volume XXXII, No. 1, 2008.
  3. Web site: The Assay. Writers hub. 24 February 2015.
  4. Web site: Poet's corner – Yvonne Green. BBC. 24 February 2015.
  5. Book: Green. Yvonne. The Legal Studies Forum. Western Newspaper Publishing Inc.. 481. Volume XXXII, No. 1, 2008.
  6. News: A Silk Road Bride Rides a London Taxi. Haaretz. 2015-01-27.
  7. Web site: The Poetry business presents Yvonne Green. The Poetry Business. 24 February 2015.
  8. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Itinerary of identity takes in York and Pasadena. The Jewish Chronicle. 4 July 2016.
  9. Web site: Green. Yvonne. 'In the wake of the Paris attacks, people were naturally nervous about taking part': Jews and Muslims stand together against terrorism in St Albans. St Albans Review. 7 December 2015 . 4 February 2016.
  10. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Live from the Knesset. Facebook. StandWithUs. 4 July 2016.
  11. News: "The Kurdish Sisterhood": where Poetry Meets Music – Majalla Magazine. 14 July 2017. Majalla Magazine. 20 July 2017. en-US.
  12. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Taking the Temperature. YouTube. 3 November 2015.
  13. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Taking The Temperature 3. YouTube. 3 November 2015.
  14. Web site: הניסוי / איבון גרין. Am Oved. 24 February 2015.
  15. Book: Yvonne. Green. PN Review. 25 November 2010 . 9781847770356. Front. Carcanet Press, Limited . 196 Nov–Dec 2010.
  16. Book: Green. Yvonne. London Magazine. April–May 2007. Short Run Press Ltd. 9770024608001-->. 119–122.
  17. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Reflections on a Visit to Gaza. Freedom in a Puritan Age. 25 February 2015.
  18. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Puzzled in Gaza. Israeli Soldiers Mother. 8 March 2015.
  19. Web site: Puzzled in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post. 2 March 2009 . 24 February 2015.
  20. News: Yvonne Green . The Jewish Chronicle . 19 March 2009 . 24 February 2015.
  21. Web site: Yvonne. Green. LONDON NW3: Taking the Temperature. 8 February 2015.
  22. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Russian Poetry House. Pushkin House.
  23. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Timetable. Able Muse. 27 February 2015.
  24. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Poets on Fire. Poets on Fire. 2008-09-27.
  25. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Shul in The Wood.
  26. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Yehuda Amichai's poems by his friends. Write Out Loud.
  27. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Peter Daniels reading. Peter Daniels.
  28. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Poetry at the Troubadour. Write Our Loud.
  29. Web site: Yvonne. Green. Exiled Writers Cafe. Exiled Writers. 27 February 2015. 16 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150216070428/http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/cafe.shtml. dead.
  30. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Buxton Reading. BuxtonFestival. 27 February 2015.
  31. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Jewish Museum Reading. Write Out Loud. 27 February 2015.
  32. News: Green. Yvonne. Poem commissioned to mark 75-years since Baghdad massacre. 14 June 2016. Jewish News. 8 June 2016.
  33. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Yvonne Green The Farhud. YouTube. 14 June 2016.
  34. Web site: Green. Yvonne. Yvonne Green – Poetry Salon 10 May 2016. poetry-festival.co.uk. 14 June 2016.

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