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Poetry Wales
''Poetry Wales'' is a triannual poetry magazine published in Bridgend, Wales. Founded by Meic Stephens and now published by Seren, it is edited by Zoë Brigley. Since its first publication in 1965, the magazine has built an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond. The magazine is published in print and online. History ''Poetry Wales'' was founded by Meic Stephens in 1965, and has since been edited by Sam Adams, John Powell Ward, Cary Archard, Mike Jenkins, Richard Poole, Robert Minhinnick, Zoë Skoulding, Nia Davies and Jonathan Edwards. In August 2021, the magazine appointed its first ever joint editors in Zoë Brigley and Marvin Thompson. However, Thompson stepped down from the role three weeks later. Since then, Brigley has introduced a scheme where a series of contributing editors join the magazine for a couple of issues, including Vicky Morris, Isabelle Baafi, Hannah Hodgson, Taylor Edmonds, and Grug Muse. Former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Brigley
Zoë Brigley or Zoë Brigley Thompson (born 1981) is a Welsh people, Welsh poet, editor of ''Poetry Wales'', and assistant professor in the Department of English of Ohio State University. Biography Brigley was born in 1981 and grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley. She has a BA (2002), MA (2004) and PhD (2007) from the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis was titled: ''Exile and ecology : the poetic practice of Gwyneth Lewis, Pascale Petit (poet), Pascale Petit and Deryn Rees-Jones''. She won a 2003 Eric Gregory Award, an award given by the Society of Authors for a collection by a poet aged under 30. She has had three volumes of poetry published by Bloodaxe Books: ''The Secret'' (2007), ''Conquest'' (2012), and ''Hand & Skull'' (2019). All three were Poetry Book Society recommendations. In 2019 she published ''Notes from a Swing State: Writings from Wales and America'' and co-edited ''Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation''. In 2021, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo-Welsh Welsh writing in English ( Welsh: ''Llenyddiaeth Gymreig yn Saesneg''), (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. The term ‘Anglo-Welsh’ replaced an earlier atte ... poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although, Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a Welsh writer. Rees-Jones did doctoral research on women poets at Birkbeck College, and is now a Professor of Poetry at Liverpool University. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1993, and an Arts Council of Arts Council England, England Writer's Award in 1996. Works She has published three poetry books with Seren Books, Seren, ''The Memory Tray'' (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; ''Signs Round a Dead Body'' (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verity Spott
Verity Spott (born in 1987) is an English neo-modernist poet. Spott was born and raised in the central region of England, and moved to Brighton in 2006. Since then Spott has been teaching poetry in local institutions, as well as co-running a monthly poetry and musical performance called "Horseplay". Spott is an alumnus of the University of Sussex. Reception Spott's work has been described in the ''New York Times'' as, "mesmerizing, oneiric, enchanted, with language that surprises". An analysis of their poetry in the ''Chicago Review'' alludes to critical correlations between political situations and escapism, calling in to question the "very binaries of political engagement and escapist withdrawal, the idea that hope is the foundation for action...and the relationship between imagined actions and real ones." Spott's work has been discussed in the ''Cordite Poetry Review'', and critiqued in the book, ''Wound Building: Dispatches from the Latest Disasters in UK Poetry'', amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dunthorne
Joe Dunthorne (born 1982) is a Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. He made his name with his novel ''Submarine'' (2008), made into a film in 2010. His second novel, ''Wild Abandon'' (2011), won the RSL Encore Award. A selection of his poems was published in 2010 in the Faber and Faber New Poets series. His first solo collection of poems appeared in 2019. Early life Joseph Oliver Dunthorne was born in Swansea, Wales in 1982. He has two sisters, Anna and Leah. Dunthorne was educated at Olchfa School, Swansea before going on to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He received BA and MA degrees in Creative Writing from UEA. In the final year of his BA course, he began writing his debut novel ''Submarine''. During study for his MA at UEA, he won the university's inaugural Curtis Brown Prize for ‘’Submarine’’. Career Dunthorne's first novel ''Submarine'', in which a teenager records with comedy and anguish his relationship with his girlfriend and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Ellis Dunning
Mari Ellis Dunning (born 15 July 1993) is a Welsh writer based in Aberystwyth. Her debut poetry collection ''Salacia'' was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year in 2019. She has also published a children's book. Early life Mari Ellis Dunning was born on 15 July 1993. She is a University of Aberystwyth alumna, having studied for an MA in Creative Writing there. Career Dunning's first solo publication was a children's book called ''Percy the Pom Pom Bear'', published simultaneously in Welsh and English. The book was launched on 23 April 2016 at the Abergavenny Writing Festival. Later that year, Dunning won the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award with her short story 'Cartref'. Her debut poetry collection, ''Salacia'', followed in 2018. Published by Parthian Books, ''Salacia'' was later shortlisted for the 2019 Wales Book of the Year. In an interview with ''The Cardiff Review'', Dunning revealed that the collection "is filled with poems centred on my own experiences, me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt FRSL (born 1990) is a poet, lecturer and literary critic. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Biography Seán Hewitt was born in Warrington, UK, to an Irish mother and English father. He studied English at Girton College, Cambridge. Hewitt received his PhD, on the works of J. M. Synge, from the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He lives in Dublin, where he lectures at Trinity College Dublin. Hewitt was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2019, and won the world's biggest ecopoetry award, the Resurgence Prize, in 2017. He also received a Northern Writers' Award in 2016. Hewitt was listed as one of ''The Sunday Times'' "30 under 30" artists in Ireland in 2020. His debut collection of poems, ''Tongues of Fire'', won The Laurel Prize in 2021. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022. Works Hewitt's debut collection, ''Tongues of Fire'', was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. ''Tongues of Fire'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Books Council
The Books Council of Wales (previously known as the Welsh Books Council) or Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru was established in 1961. Today it is funded by the Welsh Government. The council's aims are to promote the interests of Welsh language books and English language books of interest to Wales, to promote the publishing industry, and to assist and support authors by offering a number of services and distributing grants. It offers design and editorial services for publishers, distributes grants for authors and publishers, and provides services for libraries. The council's headquarters are in the former St Mary's College building in Castell Brychan A ''castell'' () is a human tower built traditionally at festivals in Catalonia, the Balearic islands and the Valencian Community. At these festivals, several ''colles castelleres'' (teams that build towers) attempt to build and dismantle a ..., Aberystwyth; and it also has a distribution centre on the outskirts of the town at Glanyrafo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet (magazine)
''Planet'' (also known as ''Planet: The Welsh Internationalist'') is a quarterly cultural and political magazine published in Aberystwyth, Wales. It looks at Wales from an international perspective, and at the world from the standpoint of Wales. The magazine enjoys a vibrant and diverse international readership, and is read by key figures in the Welsh political cultural scene. History ''Planet'' publishes high-quality writing, artwork and photography by established and emerging figures, and covers subjects across politics, the arts, literature, current events, social justice questions, minority language and culture, the environment and more. It was originally set up as a bi-monthly publication by Ned Thomas in 1970, and was published continually until 1979. This followed a decision in 1967 to devolve the function of The Arts Council of Great Britain in Wales to the Welsh Arts Council. Thomas explained that "The arts council's literature director, Meic Stephens, had a vision of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Welsh Review
''New Welsh Review'' is a literary magazine published in Wales. Its primary language is English, with brief excerpts of texts indicated in the original Welsh. History Founded in 1988 as successor to ''The Welsh Review'' (1939–1948), ''Dock Leaves'', and ''The Anglo-Welsh Review'' (1949–1988), ''New Welsh Review'' is Wales's foremost literary magazine in English. It publishes articles on literature, theatre, and the arts, as well as interviews, reviews, original short stories, and poetry. From the time its initial issues were published, ''New Welsh Review'' has been central to the Welsh literary scene. Its focus is on Welsh writing in English, but the journal's outlook also features broad UK and international contexts. Contributors include some of the greatest Welsh and international writers and thinkers: Dannie Abse, Paul Muldoon, P. D. James, Emyr Humphreys, Leslie Norris, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Rachel Trezise, Niall Griffiths, Owen Sheers, Terry Eagleton, Edna Longley, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberystwyth University
, mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment = £30.9 million (2021) , budget = £116.8 million (2020-21) , administrative_staff = , vice_chancellor = Elizabeth Treasure , chancellor = John, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = Aberystwyth , state = , country = Wales , campus_type = Campus , campus_size = , colours = , affiliations = , website = , logo = Aberystwyth University logo.svg Aberystwyth University ( cy, Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea University
, former_names=University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea , motto= cy, Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn , mottoeng="Technical skill is bereft without culture" , established=1920 – University College of Swansea 1996 – University of Wales, Swansea 2007 – Swansea University , type=Public , endowment=£6.1 million (2017) , administrative_staff=3290 , chancellor= Dame Jean Thomas , vice_chancellor=Professor Paul Boyle , students= , undergrad= , postgrad= , city=Swansea , country=Wales, United Kingdom , coordinates= , campus=Suburban/coastal , colours=Academic: blue, silver and blackAthletic Union: green and white , affiliations= ACU EUAUniversity of WalesUniversities UK , website= Swansea University ( cy, Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Bush
Duncan Bush (6 April 1946 – 18 August 2017) was a Welsh poet, novelist, dramatist (for film, TV, radio and stage), translator and documentary writer. Bush was born in Cardiff. He was educated at Warwick University, Duke University and Wadham College, Oxford. His collections ''Aquarium'' and ''Salt'' were awarded the Welsh Arts Council Prize for Poetry in 1984 and 1986 respectively – both republished in a single volume ''The Hook'' (Seren Books). His 1995 collection, ''Masks'', was a Poetry Society recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year award for an English-language work. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous magazines and major anthologies, including ''The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories'', ''Granta'', ''The London Magazine'', ''The New Poetry'', ''Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry'', ''The Firebox''. He published three novels: ''The Genre of Silence'' (Seren, 1987) is set in the USSR during the Civil War; a psychological thriller, ''Glas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
