Philip Hoare’s books include biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noël Coward, the historical studies, Wilde’s Last Stand, Spike Island, and England’s Lost Eden. His book Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. His last book, The Sea Inside, was published in 2013. His new book, RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, is published by Fourth Estate (summer 2017), the University of Chicago Press (spring 2018), and Atico de los Libros (autumn 2018).
Out of a tempestuous sea, fantastical stories of drowned poets, eccentric artists and magical animals, slipping between species and gender, all bound by the profound ocean.
‘Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’, Robert Macfarlane.
An experienced broadcaster, curator and filmmaker, he wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, and curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read, www.mobydickbigread.com
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You can now watch Philip's stunning film on YouTube. The film explores the life of Wilfred Owen, using his letter… t.co/AttKvlRnmY
@RobHudsonPhoto ‘I was always a mad comet,’ he told Siegfried, ‘a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.’ Wi… t.co/1nFafb6fOE
@RobHudsonPhoto ‘I was always a mad comet,’ he told Siegfried, ‘a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.’ Wi… t.co/1nFafb6fOE
aerial litter to some, first line ambassadors of the wild to others; @TimDee4 unfailingly wonderful, as ever. t.co/jGAbmiOhnP
'I was a dark star always' Now on You Tube, 8'44" mins t.co/bneg0DUCKi @JHansardGallery t.co/0yBlLRYbwd
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