Frank L. Ludwig
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Frank L. Ludwig is a poet and photographer and was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1964. The way classic poetry was taught and contemporary poetry was written put him off poetry for a long time, and his interest in poetry only emerged in his late twenties.
After having discovered the classics, he started studying the techniques of rhythmic poetry and soon found himself writing, too; first in German, and after relocating to Sligo (in the Northwest of the Republic of Ireland) in 1996 in English.
In 1999 he published his first collection, The Reaper's Valentine, and was awarded a scholarship for the Yeats Summer School where Seamus Heany complimented him on "a very good feeling for the rhythm and the rhyme".
In 2002 he published the essay The Heart of Poesy, which explains all there is to know about writing rhythmic poetry without any scientific jargon.
Frank has won several poetry competitions in both English and German, including First Prize in the Dun Laoghaire Poetry Competition 1999 and 2004, and his poems have been published in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Switzerland and Germany.
He is also an art and landscape photographer, and his work has been part of several exhibitions, including the Iontas Small Works Exhibition 2005.
