John Powell Ward (born 1937) is an English poet and academic. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Arts and Humanities at

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. John Powell Ward was born in

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, Suffolk. He studied at the

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and the

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before embarking on an academic career in Swansea. Between 1977 and 1984, he was a regular presenter of the BBC radio programme ''Poetry Now'', and from 1975 to 1980 he edited ''

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''. In 2012, an exhibition of his "Poetry or Type" project was on view at the

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Works

Poetry

*''The Other Man'' (Christopher Davies, 1969) *''To Get Clear'' (Poetry Wales Press, 1981) *''The Clearing'' (Poetry Wales Press, 1984) *''A Certain Marvellous Thing'' (Seren, 1993) *''Genesis'' (Seren, 1997) *''Late Thoughts in March'' (Seren, 1999) *''Selected and New Poems'' (Seren, 2004) *''The Last Green Year'' (Cinnamon Press, 2008) *''Instead Of Goodbye'' (Cinnamon Press, 2017) *''Religious Poems, Maybe'' (Cinnamon Press 2020)

Criticism

*''Social Reality for the Adolescent Girl'' (University of Wales, Swansea 1976) *''Poetry and the Sociological Idea'' (Harvester Press, 1981) *''Wordsworth's Language of Men'' (Harvester Press, 1984) *''

Raymond Williams Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contribu ...

'' (University of Wales Press, 1984) *''The English Line'' (Macmillan, 1991) *''As You Like It'' (Harvester: Shakespeare New Readings, 1992) *''

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...

's Poetry'' (Open University Guides, 1993) *''The Poetry of

R. S. Thomas Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest ( Church of Wales) noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, introduc ...

'' (Seren Books: Poetry Wales Press, 1987) *''The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry'' (Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press USA, 2004)

Awards

*''Poetry and the Sociological Idea'', Welsh Arts Council Award for literary criticism, 1981 *''The Clearing'', Welsh Arts Council Award for poetry, 1984 *''The Spell of the Song'', Outstanding Academic Title Citation, American Libraries Association, 2004

Works

Poetry

Criticism

Awards

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