Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, journalist, broadcaster and poet.
In the summer of 1998, she secured the unique position of Public Art Poet as part of the Poetry Society's 'Poetry Places' scheme.
Poetry:
An example of Sue Hubbard's poetry appears in the Imax tunnel, Waterloo, London.
Everything Begins with the Skin, her first full-length collection, was published in late 1994 by Enitharmon.
She has published two previous pamphlets of poetry, I dreamt I remembered what love was (Priapus Press) and Venetian Red (Hearing Eye)
Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines including: Encounter, Acumen, Ambit, Iron, Resurgence, Writing Women, The Green Book, Spokes, Sheffield Thursday and Poetry Wales, Poetry London Newsletter, London Magazine, The Independent and The Observer
Her poems have been included in the following anthologies: In The Gold Flesh (Women's Press); Klaonica: Poems for Bosnia (Bloodaxe);
The Blue Nose Anthology; The Dybukk of Delight: An anthology of Jewish women's poetry (Five Leaves Press).Prizes include: runner up in the Bridgeport Literature Competition 1998. Runner up in the Poetry Business Competition 1990 and 1991. Tied first prize winner in the Lancaster Literature Festival 1993. Fourth prize in the national Peterloo Competition 1994 and in the Cardiff Literature Competition 1995.
Translations: "Mary" and "Nude in Bathtub" have been translated into Romanian and published in Tomjs.
Residences awarded:
1996 Delfina Arts, Spain.
1997 Hawthornden, Scotland.
1997 Yaddo, USA.
Her poems have been broadcast on Radio 4's Kaleidoscope.
She is the founder member of The Blue Nose Poets, a group which holds a varied programme of readings, events and poetry workshops. Other projects include Calliopia.
She served for three years on the Poetry Society Council.
She has performed and read widely and festivals and venues around the country, including at the Voice Box as part of the New Voices series. She is working on a second collection of poetry.
Click here to read some of
Sue Hubbard's poetry.
Prose:
Her short story A Sprig Of Basil was published in an anthology of new writing Harliquinned (published by UEA), 1995. She has completed a novel After Apple Picking which will be published in 2000.
Art writing:
Since 1989 she has been a regular contributor to Time Out and a feature writer for Contemporary Visual Art. She has written for 20/20, Arts West, Alba, Galleries, Third Text, Untitled and Make and was, for five years, a regular contributor to New Statesmen and Society.
She has written catalogues for Anthony Daley, Jose Buitrago, Paul Harbutt, Nicola Hicks, Sokari Douglas-Camp, Julie Major, and Nigel Freake, Herve Constant and Varvara Shavrova, Melanie Manchot and Kate Downie, and a chapter on Alexis Hunter in a Longman Paul publication on Australian and New Zealand woman artists.
Teaching: She has taught as a visiting lecturer at: Winchester, The Royal College, St Martins, Norwich School of Art, Bath and Camberwell.
She has reviewed, on numerous occasions, for Radio 4's Kaleidoscope and is a member of the International Art Critics Association.
Journalism:
She has written for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Independent and done book reviews for The New Statesman and Poetry London Newsletter.
Workshops:
She is involved in running the regular programme of London Arts Board funded creative writing workshops for
The Blue Nose Poets.
Arts events:
She has experience of organising a variety of art events. The most major was a large Covent Garden Poetry Festival in conjunction with
The Blue Nose Poets and The Poetry Society on the first National Poetry Day for which she was able to obtain a special, one-off budget from LAB. This took place in the piazza and had poets reading live throughout the day. It received a great deal of press coverage. Other events have been as diverse as a celebration of Sylvia Plath's anniversary with talks by A. Alvarez and the poet Carol Rumens an event on Auden, with talks commissioned from the late Gavin Ewart and Glyn Maxwell, held at the Factual Nonsense Gallery. Recent events have included a reading of Jewish Women Poets at the Spitalfields Heritage Centre and a celebration of Freud's birthday at the Freud Museum. This included commissioning a number of major poets to respond creatively to Freud, as well as talks by Charles Ryecroft and the poet and psychotherapist Valerie Sinason. Other recent events included an afternoon on Poetry in Translation with George Szirtes, Fleur Adcock and Francis Jones.
Networking:
Because she works within both the literary and art worlds, she has numerous connections with contemporary poets, artists, gallery owners and editors. She also has connections with the Literature Department of
LAB and the BBC, having worked for Kaleidoscope, and within art schools.