{"id":1143,"date":"2024-11-26T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1143"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:24:54","slug":"james-lasdun","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/james-lasdun\/","title":{"rendered":"James Lasdun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lasdun was born in London in 1958 and now lives in the US. His poetry collections include <em>A Jump Start<\/em>\u00a0(Secker &amp; Warburg, 1987),\u00a0<em>The Revenant<\/em>\u00a0(1995),\u00a0<em>Landscape with Chainsaw<\/em> (2001), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and <em>Water Sessions<\/em>\u00a0(2012), all published by Cape Poetry, and\u00a0<em>Bluestone: New and Selected Poems<\/em> (2015, Farrar Straus, Giroux). He has published several novels, including <em>The<\/em> <em>Fall Guy,<\/em> and books of short stories, including the selection\u00a0<em>The Siege,<\/em>\u00a0the title story of which was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci (<em>Besieged<\/em>). With Jonathan Nossiter he co-wrote the films\u00a0<em>Sunday<\/em>, which won\u00a0Best Feature\u00a0and\u00a0Best Screenplay awards at the Sundance Film Festival, and <em>Signs and Wonders<\/em>, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgaard. With Michael Hofmann he edited the anthology\u00a0<em>After Ovid: New Metamorphoses<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslasdun.com\/\">www.jameslasdun.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lasdun was born in London in 1958 and now lives in the US. His poetry collections include A Jump Start\u00a0(Secker &amp; Warburg, 1987),\u00a0The Revenant\u00a0(1995),\u00a0Landscape with Chainsaw (2001), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and Water Sessions\u00a0(2012), all published by Cape Poetry, and\u00a0Bluestone: New and Selected Poems (2015, Farrar Straus, Giroux). He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1144,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1143","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}