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The words of Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece 'War Requiem' – which challenges the assumptions, waste and futility of war – have inspired the textual...
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Now installed in Westminster Abbey, Stephen's design for the stone commemorating the four founders of the Royal Ballet is to be found near Poets' Corner.
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'Rings' – a poem written by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrates the 'unbreakable relationship between love and poetry'.
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A sonnet, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was written by Carol Ann Duffy and painted by Stephen Raw on seven large panels.
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The British Library in London have recently bought a set of Stephen's 'The Lord of the Rings' maps he drew to add to their world-renowned collection.
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Stephen's design for sixth-form Aquinas College in Stockport, Cheshire has been unveiled at the opening of the new £40m building.
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Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
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The concept of the St Ann’s mural was to harvest or ‘garner’ the language of people’s experience of the hospice.
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This short DVD describes how Stephen created a large painting for a hospital in Japan. It's about 'memory-words' for older patients, some with amnesia.
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In October 2008 Stephen had gone with Manchester Aid to Kosova to run workshops where participants were invited to paint words for 'Peace'.
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Large silk-screen print from the ‘Song of Solomon’ in the King James Bible English was made in Cambridge at The Print Studio under the tutelage of Kip Gresham
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For the launch of Carol Ann Duffy's new collection 'The Bees' (Picador), Stephen made a colour print of his artwork which appears in black and white in the...
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Stephen and the Scottish Poetry Library invited all who love Robert Burns poetry to paint a letter which appeared in the giant 'BurnsBanner'.
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The Manchester Carols - by Carol Ann Duffy - have now been published by Faber Music and the CD is available from Naxos.
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Stephen has designed the The British Academy President's Medal - awarded for signal service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences.
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Lichfield Festival, the textual artist Stephen Raw was asked to work with a poem that was specially commissioned from...
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Judges Gillian Clarke, Stephen Raw and Jeanette Winterson have awarded the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry to Kaite O'Reilly for her extraordinary...
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Stephen has lectured to the Creative Writing MA students at Manchester Metropolitan University over the years.
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