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.
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