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John Osborne
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John Osborne

John Osborne graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2004. He has taught English in Austria and Germany, and has had poetry published in the Guardian and the Spectator. Radio Head is his first book.

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Q. Name of your favorite composer or music artist?
A. Blur, Super Furry Animals, Hefner, Bearsuit, Art Brut.
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My life in 8 words: "Lives in Norwich. Has never seen Star Wars."
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December 17, 2010
In 2002 I won a competition on JohnPeel's Radio 1 show. My prize was a box of records from his shed,delivered to my student flat...
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June 21, 2010
I am writing a poem about football every day during the World Cup. The idea is that England are going to win the World Cup and...
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May 19, 2010
In 2002 I won a competition on John Peel's Radio 1 show. My prize was a box of 150 records from John Peel's own collection and...
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March 29, 2010
It's not too late to complain to the BBC about the axing of 6music and the Asian Network. 8,000 people already have done. All...
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November 16, 2009
One of the best things of last twelve months is that I have been doing gigs as part of the poetry collective Aisle16. ...
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July 13, 2009
After Glastonbury last week, I'm getting ready for Latitude Festival in Suffolk next week. I am part of the performance poetry...
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The Newsagent's Window will be released on March 31, 2011 in Mass Market Paperback
Mar 31, 2011
The Newsagent's Window is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Mar 31, 2011
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John Peel's Shed
Dec 18, 2010
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World Cup Poems
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John Peel's Shed
May 20, 2010
The Newsagent's Window will be released on April 01, 2010 in
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BBC 6Music
Mar 30, 2010
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John Osborne Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Keep myself to myself. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Teaching can be fun. Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. Damon Albarn. Q. What are your most overused words or phrases? A. Ace. Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. People pointing and laughing. Learn more about John Osborne

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Eastern Riverina Chronicle, June 7, 2013
...it less autobiographical? A pause. "Maybe. More self-accusatory, anyway." Le Carre, although born only two years after John Osborne, was never an Angry Young Man: for all the talk in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold about spies being "people who play...
World News Network, June 1, 2013
...liked to produce a theatre play, or even act, "in something by Chekov", or a "straight drama" by John Osborne.[23] Back in Liverpool, his father put his son in charge of the record department of the newly-opened NEMS music store on Great Charlotte...
Telegraph, May 25, 2013
...it less autobiographical? A pause. "Maybe. More self-accusatory, anyway." Le Carré, although born only two years after John Osborne, was never an Angry Young Man: for all the talk in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold about spies being "people who play...
Londonist, May 14, 2013
...space, here):  Robin Ince and John Hegley , two wonderfully clever and funny performers (8 June, 8pm, £10); John Osborne (John Peel’s Shed) and Charlie Connolly (Attention All Shipping) talk weather (8 June, 3pm, £4); Northern exiles should go to...
Individual.com, May 2, 2013
...innovation, Ivey said, it's no surprise that Temple members such as avant-garde musician Henry Cowell and poet John Osborne Varian proved prominent. Two of Varian's sons, electrical engineers Russell and Sigurd Varian, founded Silicon Valley firm...
Booktrade - Book2Book, May 1, 2013
...Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett, Caryl Churchill, Simon Stephens, Mark Ravenhill, Edward Bond, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Willy Russell, John Osborne, and David Hare. It also houses the first ever online editions and multiple translations of Bertolt...
The Arts Desk, April 27, 2013
...Wesker’s handwritten books of dreams (of British playwrights, Tom Stoppard’s archives are also here, as are John Osborne’s and David Hare’s) or the FBI file on Arthur Miller, or Anne Sexton’s letters, or TS Eliot’s handwritten copy of The...
World News Network, June 1, 2013
...liked to produce a theatre play, or even act, "in something by Chekov", or a "straight drama" by John Osborne.[23] Back in Liverpool, his father put his son in charge of the record department of the newly-opened NEMS music store on Great Charlotte...
Financial Times, May 31, 2013
Sify, May 31, 2013
...As I stepped off the plane from Delhi and into London?s fetid tube what hit me first, as usual, was the crackling tension in the air. Despite a historical Black presence dating centuries now, England, and even a metropolitan London, doesn?t like Black in...
Sify, May 31, 2013
...As I stepped off the plane from Delhi and into London?s fetid tube what hit me first, as usual, was the crackling tension in the air. Despite a historical Black presence dating centuries now, England, and even a metropolitan London, doesn?t like Black in...
Santa Maria Times, May 31, 2013
...Allan Hancock baseball will host its annual ‘College Summer Baseball Clinics’ on June 17-20 and June 24-27 at John Osborne Field in Santa Maria. Players ages 6 through 18 are invited to sharpen their hitting, fielding and pitching skills at the...
Racing and Sports, May 30, 2013
...the Investec Oaks with Moth. A number of brothers have teamed up for victory - W Osborne and John Osborne Jr in 1874 (Apology), John Day Jr and Alfred Day in 1856 (Mincepie), John and William Scott in 1844 (The Princess), W Day and John Barham Day in 1834...
Hartlepool Mail, May 30, 2013
...to hear his name read out as the winner. He followed in the footsteps of fellow Hartlepool cabbie John Osborne, who won the competition in its very first year last year, proof, for Stephen, that taxi drivers in Hartlepool are the very best. “When I...