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  • Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
  • Wall design for Aquinas College by Stephen Raw
  • Picture of Wilfred Owen's poem 'Voices', the letters are cutouts in paper
  • Anthem for Doomed Youth

    'War Requiem' show opens 25 June

    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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    New DVD for exhibition

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  • Royal Ballet stone for the Abbey

    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’ prints still available

    'Rings' – a poem written by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrates the 'unbreakable relationship between love and poetry'.
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  • Video link to Royal Shakespeare Company site

    Royal Shakespeare Company DVD

    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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  • 'Language Made Visible' DVD

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  • stephen raw drawing lord of the rings map

    British Library buys Tolkien maps

    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 raw's mural

    New murals unveiled

    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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  • stephen raw's medal using carol ann duffy's poem 'Hour'

    Carol Ann Duffy poetry cast in bronze!

    Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
    bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
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  • St Ann's hospice mural

    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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  • DVD of Japanese hospital painting

    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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  • The ‘Manchester Peace Park’

    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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  • stephen raw's song of solomon print

    Song of Solomon silk screen print

    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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  • 'The Bees' print for Carol Ann Duffy

    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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  • jan sutch pickard and the robert burns banner in edinburgh

    Robert Burns 250th anniversary

    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 prints

    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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  • Medal design for British Academy

    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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  • Lichfield Festival Banner

    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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  • Ted Hughes award

    Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry

    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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  • MA Creative Writing at MMU

    Stephen has lectured to the Creative Writing MA students at Manchester Metropolitan University over the years.
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