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JAMES ORWIN<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Scotland. Educated at Riley Technical High School in Hull, he left school aged 16 \u2014 with three O’ Levels and a CSE (!) \u2014 to begin an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator. In 1982 (with a mortgage and two children) he was made redundant, and consequently made the decision to become a sole-trader, setting up his own painting & decorating business.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In 2000, he began studying for a degree with the Open University (He was awarded a 2:1 BSc (Honours) Information Technology and Computing in 2009). It was around this time (late 1999\/early 2000) that he also became an active member of The Philip Larkin Society<\/a>, which led to a long-term research interest in musical settings of Philip Larkin’s poetry. Prominent Larkin scholar Dr John Osborne, in his monograph\u00a0Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence: A Case of Wrongful Conviction<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) refers to him as ‘the the world authority on musical settings of Philip Larkin’s poetry’.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In 2010, as part of the activities organised to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Philip Larkin’s death, he curated (and was executive producer of)\u00a0all night north<\/a><\/em>, a CD of new songs by young bands and songwriters from Hull using poems by Philip Larkin as lyrics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He has published two short collections of poetry:\u00a0Hold Something Warm<\/em>\u00a0(1996) and\u00a0Lost Thoughts and Radio Waves<\/em>\u00a0(1999), and has had several articles (and a number of his poems) published in\u00a0About Larkin<\/em>, the biannual journal of The Philip Larkin Society. He has presented papers relating to his specialist subject at a number of academic conferences and Study Days. As a poet, he has had work published in several small magazines and anthologies, including\u00a0The Rialto<\/em>,\u00a0Magma<\/em>,\u00a0The Hull Connection<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a010 Miles East of England<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He set up a small publishing imprint\u00a0Dancing Sisters<\/a>\u00a0in 2016, and has published small pamphlet collections by several poets, including Mary McCollum<\/a>, Frank Newsum and Dean Wilson<\/a>. In 2017 he published\u00a0Hull 2017: 2017 facts about Hull and people associated with the city<\/a><\/em>; and on 9 August 2022, the centenary of the birth of Philip Larkin, he published his research on musical settings of Larkin’s poetry Astonishing the Brickwork: Philip Larkin set to music<\/em>. The book was published by Dancing Sisters<\/a> in association with The Philip Larkin Society<\/a>, and is available from the dedicated larkintomusic.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JAMES ORWIN\u00a0was born in Scotland. Educated at Riley Technical High School in Hull, he left school aged 16 \u2014 with three O’ Levels and a CSE (!) \u2014 to begin an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator. In 1982 (with a mortgage and two children) he was made redundant, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesorwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}