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University of Glamorgan Writers are Honoured

Tony Curtis is a Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directs the M.Phil. in Writing. He has published eight collections of poetry and has written on the visual arts in Wales in Welsh Artists Talking and Welsh Painters Talking. His editing work includes How Poets Work and The Art of Seamus Heaney. His selected poems are published in translation in Italy later this year.

A former Chairman of the Welsh Academy, he won the Dylan Thomas Award in 1993 and received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1997 from the Society of Authors.

Gillian Clarke is one of the most prolific of Welsh poets in English. Her collection Letters from a Far Country represented a new voice for women in Wales and together with her Selected Poems established her as one of the most significant of poet-war writers in Wales. Her work is studied throughout the UK in schools and colleges.

A former Chair of the Welsh Academy, and in 1997 she received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. Gillian Clarke is a Tutor for the M.Phil. in Writing at the University of Glamorgan.