Tony Curtis

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Biography

Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in west Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont, and is the author of several collections of poetry, including War Voices (1995); The Arches (1998) and Heaven's Gate (2001).

He has also written books of criticism, including How Poets Work (1996) and Welsh Painters Talking (1997), The Art of Seamus Heaney (1982) and Dannie Abse (1985). He is the editor of several books, including The Poetry of Pembrokeshire (1989); The Poetry of Snowdonia (1989); and Coal: an anthology of mining (1997).

In 2007, he edited the anthology, After the First Death, and published his latest collection of poetry, Crossing Over.

Tony Curtis is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directs the M. Phil Writing course. In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a D. Litt in 2004.  He has toured extensively giving poetry readings and lectures and won the 1993 Dylan Thomas Award and a Cholmondeley Award in 1997. He lives in Barry, Wales.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Criticism, Poetry

Bibliography

Album   Christopher Davies, 1974

Three Young Anglo Welsh Poets   (with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins)   Welsh Arts Council, 1974

Out of the Dark Wood: prose, poems and short stories   Edge Press, 1977

Carnival   Alun Books, 1978

Preparations: poems 1974-1979   Gomer, 1980

The Art of Seamus Heaney   (editor and introduction)   Poetry Wales Press, 1982

The Deerslayers   Cwm Nedd Press, 1982

Letting Go   Poetry Wales Press, 1983

Dannie Abse   (Writers of Wales series)   University of Wales Press/Welsh Arts Council, 1985

Poems, Selected and New   Story Line Press (US), 1986

Selected Poems 1970-1985   Poetry Wales Press, 1986

Wales: The Imagined Nation   Poetry Wales Press, 1986

The Last Candles   Seren, 1989

The Poetry of Pembrokeshire   (editor)   Seren, 1989

The Poetry of Snowdonia   (editor)   Seren, 1989

How to Study Modern Poetry   Macmillan, 1990

Love from Wales   (editor with Sian James)   Seren, 1991

Taken for Pearls: new poems   Seren, 1993

War Voices   Seren, 1995

How Poets Work   (editor)   Seren, 1996

Assemblea di Poety   (editor)   MobyDick (Italy), 1997

Coal: an anthology of mining   (editor)   Seren, 1997

Welsh Painters Talking   Seren, 1997

The Arches   (collages by Jon Digby)   Seren, 1998

Dal Confine: Selected Poems in Italian   mobyDick (Italy), 2000

How Novelists Work   (editor with Maura Dooley)   Georgetown University Press (US), 2000

Welsh Artists Talking   Seren, 2000

Heaven's Gate   Seren, 2001

Considering Cassandra: Poems and a Story   Gwasg Garreg Gwalch, 2003

Related Twilights: Josef Herman, Notes from an Artist's Diary   (editor)   Seren, 2004

After the First Death: An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century   (editor)   Seren, 2007

Crossing Over   Seren, 2007

Wales at War: Critical Essays on Literature and Art   (editor)   Seren, 2007

Read about books by Tony Curtis at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

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Prizes and awards

1972   Eric Gregory Award

1974   Arts Council of Wales Young Writers Prize

1984   National Poetry Competition   (first prize - 'The Death of Richard Beattie-Seaman in the Belgian Grand Prix, 1939')

1993   Dylan Thomas Award

1997   Cholmondeley Award

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Seren Books 57 Nolton Street Bridgend  CF31 3AE Wales Tel: +44 (0)1656 663018 Fax: +44 (0)1656 649226 E-mail: general@seren-books.com http://www.seren-books.com

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