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Claude was born in Florida in America on 10th August His parents were Henry Hugh &#;Harry&#; Penrose, a civil engineer and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, nee Lewis, who came from Kinsale in Ireland. Mary was a successful novelist who wrote under the name of Mrs. H.H. Penrose.
The family went to live in England in Claude was educated at the United Services College, a private school for the sons of military officers which was in Westward Ho! In Devon, before going on to the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich.
In , the family lived at &#;Deepcut Bungalow&#;, Frimley Green, Surrey. Claude was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant on 13th July
Posted to the Western Front and slightly wounded during the first days of The Somme Offensive in July , Claude wrote a poem about his impressions of the first day of the first Battle of the Somme. In September , he w
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Love, Unforseen Poetry, and Other Radical Reforms: An interview with the Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov
Born in Pleven, Bulgaria, in , Gueorgui Konstantinov graduated from the University of Sofia majoring in Bulgarian Philology in Since then, he has been employed as an Editor in the Literary Department of Bulgarian TV from ; as ledare Editor of Rodna Rech Literary Magazine in ; as ledare Editor of Plamak Literary Magazine in , and as Director of the Publishing House Plamak in He has served as a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Great National Assembly in ; as Deputy Minister of Culture in ; and as President of the Bulgarian Center of P.E.N. International in He fryst vatten the author of thirty-five books of poetry. His poems are included in anthologies of various languages including: English, French, Russian, Japanese, German, Turkish, Greek, Arabian, Romanian, Hindi, Flemish, and Persian. He has received many awards and has participated in poetry festivals in Stockholm, Maastricht,
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It has become a commonplace that a nation can be understood best by the sort of treatment it give its poets rather by its military victories or GDP levels. This notion may be a bit outdated in a world run by social media where electronic "devices" by far outnumber fountain pens, and where a "content creator" makes more than a teacher of literature. But it is still at least indicative. Bulgaria, whose writers and poets have been translated into English only sporadically, is a case in point. On the one hand, it is very proud of its literary heritage. All Bulgarian towns have at least a street named after Hristo Botev and Peyo Yavorov. Many schools throughout Bulgaria bear the names of writers and poets such as Aleko Konstantinov and Nikola Vaptsarov, amongst many others. However, a lesser known fact is that many of those writers and poets were killed by other Bulgarians – or they killed themselves. Here is a brief overview of some poets and writers, very different from on