Kevin Crossley-Holland, Esq, FRSL's Biography

Kevin Crossley-Holland, Esq, FRSL's Professional Career

Career

ed Macmillan & Co 1962-69, Gregory fell in poetry Univ of Leeds 1969-71, talks prodr BBC 1972, editorial dir Victor Gollancz 1972-77, lectr in English Tufts in London program 1969-78, lektor Regensburg Univ 1979-80, Arts Cncl fellow in writing Winchester Sch of Art 1983 and 1984, visiting prof St Olaf Coll Minnesota 1987, 1988 and 1989, endowed chair in the humanities and fine arts Univ of St Thomas Minnesota 1991-95; editorial conslt Boydell and Brewer 1987-89; chm E Arts Assoc Literature Panel 1986-89; dir American Composers Forum 1991-96; chm Poetry next-the-Sea Festival 1999-2006; patron: Soc for Storytelling, Publishing House Me (The Young Gifted and Talented Learner Academy), European Storytelling Archive; tstee Wingfield Coll 1986-99; hon fell St Edmund Hall Oxford 2001; Hon DLitt; FRSL, fell English Assoc

Kevin Crossley-Holland, Esq, FRSL's Publications

Books and Publications

poetry: vols incl Waterslain (1986), The Language of Yes (1996), Poems from East Anglia (1997), Selected Poems (2001), Moored Man (2006), The Mountains of Norfolk: New and Selected Poems (2011); memoir: The Hidden Roads (2009); for children: The Green Children (1966, Arts Cncl Award), Storm (1985, Carnegie Medal), British Folk Tales (1987), Short! (1998), The King Who Was and Will Be (1998), Arthur: The Seeing Stone (2000, Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Tir na n-Og Award), At the Crossing-Places (2001), King of the Middle March (2003), How Many Miles to Bethlehem? (2004), Gatty's Tale (2006), Waterslain Angels (2008), Bracelet of Bones (2011), Scramasax (2012); translations from Old English: Beowulf (1968), The Exeter Book of Riddles (revised edn, 1993); mythology: The Norse Myths (1981); travel and history: Pieces of Land (1972), The Stones Remain (1989); edited: The Anglo-Saxon World (1982), Folk-Tales of The British Isles (1985), The Oxford Book of Travel Verse (1986), Young Oxford Book of Folk-Tales (1998), Light Unlocked (with Lawrence Sail, 2005); opera: The Green Children (with Nicola LeFanu, 1990), The Wildman (with Nicola LeFanu, 1995), The Sailor's Tale (with Rupert Bawden, 2002); musical settings: A Knot of Riddles (with Sir Arthur Bliss), Riddles (with William Mathias), Pilgrim Jesus (with Stephen Paulus), The Nine Gifts (with Steve Heitzeg), The Death of Balder (with Bernard Hughes), Four Carols (with Bob Chilcott), Hubbub and Jesus Springing (with Giles Swayne)

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