Susan Wicks

Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet, and novelist.^[1]

She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent.^[2] She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.^[3]

Awards

Singing Underwater won the 1992 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. The Clever Daughter was shortlisted for both the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, and 1996 Forward Poetry Prize. Cold Spring in Winter was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2010 Weidenfeld Translation Prize.^[4]

Works

Poetry

• "Nuclear", The Guardian, 6 July 2009
• "In a Wing-Mirror", poetrypf
• "Deer in Summer; "Cover"; "Deer Grazing"; "Deer in Darkness"; "Morning"; "What She Was", black manifold Issue No. 5 (July 2010)

• Singing Underwater, Faber and Faber, 1992 ISBN 978-0-571-16724-1
• Open diagnosis , Faber and Faber, 1994, ISBN 978-0-571-17139-2
• The Clever Daughter, Faber and Faber, 1996, ISBN 978-0-571-17926-8
• Night Toad: New & Selected Poems, Bloodaxe, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85224-636-5
• De-iced, Bloodaxe, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85224-755-3
• Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter, Arc, 2009, ISBN 978-1-904614-30-2
• House of Tongues, Bloodaxe, 2011

Memoir

• Driving My Father, Faber and Faber, 1995, ISBN 978-0-465-01699-0

Novels

• The Key, Faber and Faber, 1997, ISBN 978-0-571-17919-0
• Little Thing. Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 978-0-571-19344-8

Short stories

• Roll Up for the Arabian Derby, bluechrome, 2008, ISBN 978-1-906061-39-5

References

External links

• "The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire: Susan Wicks". The National Post. May 31, 2010. 
• Kate Clanchy (13 January 2007). "Flying clean". The Guardian. 
• Diane Becker. "Roll Up for the Arabian Derby review". The Short Review. 
• "Poet Valérie Rouzeau and translator Susan Wicks read from Cold Spring in Winter"