Andrew Brewerton
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Shearsman Titles
Raag Leaves for Paresh Chakraborty
About the author
After two years' teaching at the University of L'Aquila, Italy, in the early eighties, Andrew Brewerton worked for a decade in glass crystal manufacturing and design before academic appointments at Wolverhampton and Dartington. He is Honorary Professor of Fine Art at Shanghai University and has worked on glass and higher education projects in the UK, China, South Africa and Western Australia. His critical writing has been variously translated into Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Malay, and Spanish. Recent work includes essays on the Chinese performance artist He Yunchang, and on the ceramic installation work of Liu Jianhua, and some texts are available as internet publications, including: Stair Spirit, on Ann Wolff; Touching the Void, on Heidegger, Daoism and lost-wax casting; and Traluscentes novi liquors fluxisse ..., on the French glass artist Antoine Leperlier (an English version can be downloaded here).
Andrew's poetry publications include Via (Wild Honey Press, 2010); Sirius and Cade l'uliva (Poetical Histories, Cambridge 1995 and 2003) and inclusion in the anthology FOIL: Defining Poetry 1985–2000 (Etruscan Books, 2000). His Shearsman collection was the first to be issued by the publisher in both hardcover and paperback editions.