News, Views & Gigs
the geometry of love
Birthday Party
On Tuesday 23rd June, Jane will be holding a 1st Birthday Party for her novel the geometry of love at the Wales Millennium Centre in Glanfa & the Bar One. Several other novels & anthologies will be attending geometry's birthday party, bring their respective authors with them ! There will also be live music from
The Helen Jones Jazz Trio.
For more information, contact Academi Cymraeg @
http://www.academi.org/whats-on/
Tel: 029 2047 2266 or post@academi.org
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Hay-on-Wye
Jane read extracts from her novel & poetry and signed books on Thursday, 28th May in the Academi tent at the Hay Festival signing books. Look out for further opportunities to see Jane !
Find out about the Hay Festival
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Missed Jane's Interview in the Western Mail?
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Reviews
Western Mail
"Blank knows something about culture clashes too. Born and bred in England to Welsh parents, she was regarded as Welsh by the English and English by her Welsh relatives. Denied the language by "experts" who advised her mother not to speak Welsh, she moved back to her family roots in Wales as an adult, learnt Welsh and now teaches at aWelsh-language secondary school.". Read more ...
Y Lolfa
Jane's
work has won prizes and awards and been featured in numerous magazines and
anthologies including Planet, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Poetry
Quarterly Review, The Western Mail, Big Issue, Observer Magazine and The
Independent. Read
more ...
Jane Blank is a published novelist, poet & tutor in Creative Writing.
Published in 2008
The Geometry of Love
Set in Sheffield and the ghetto-suburbs of 1980s Lille, a white middle-class girl secretly marries an Algerian man twice her age and begins a new life as a Muslim wife in Northern France. The final climax is played out between her and her younger friend, for whom friendship has become obsession. The story is told in flashback from the younger girl's point of view and begins with a prologue taken from later in the book. Here she has become obsessed with her friend's husband, Omar - embroiled in a dangerous triangle of love.
Available to order here on Amazon, here from Gwales.com or from the publisher,
Y Lolfa, & from all good bookshops.
Naked Playing the Cello
is a collection of Jane's Poetry available from the Welsh Book Council (just type 'Jane Blank' in the search engine on that site) or follow the links on the Collective Press Website.
Information about courses run by Jane on
Creative Writing & literature,
may be obtained from
The Hill Education & Conference Centre, Abergavenny, Wales