Rupert M. Loydell's writing has appeared in hundreds
of magazines in the UK, Europe and America; in many anthologies; and in
several solo collections. New work was recently commissioned by the Bath
Literature Festival and by Exeter Health Care Arts. He has read his poetry
on local and national radio, in pubs, clubs and theatres, and has appeared
at literary festivals and events around the UK - including Dartington's
'Ways With Words' Festival, The Soho Jazz Festival, Barrow's 'Word Of Mouth'
Festival, The St. Ives Festival, Avon Poetry Festival, North Devon Children's
Book Festival, Sidmouth Arts Festival, and at the new British Library;
and in the United States. He is a painter with numerous group and solo
exhibitions to his name, and is Managing Editor of Stride Publications,
which he founded in 1982.
He has experience of work with adults and all ages of
schoolchildren, has tutored for the Arvon Foundation, and has been visiting
lecturer/writer at schools, colleges, libraries and hospitals - and even
at an all-night event at Southwark Cathedral! In 1991 and 1992 he read,
lectured, ran workshops, and showed his paintings at the Cornerstone Arts
Festival in Illinois, America; and was a panel-member at the 'Collaborations:
Risk, Trust, Process, Vision' conference in Berkeley, California in 1995.
He was Exeter Arts Council's Arts Development Officer 1994-96; and Chair
of Exe Lit, the Exeter Literature Festival, in 1996. He is currently working,
with poet Anthony Wilson, as the duo 'Charlie's Mid-Life Crisis', and running
writing workshops at the Tate St. Ives.
