Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)

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Tony Curtis FRSL (born 1946) is a Welsh poet, who writes in English.

Biography

Tony Curtis was born in 1946 in Carmarthen, and was educated at Swansea University. He subsequently studied for a MFA degree at Goddard College, Vermont.[1] Tony Curtis's debut in print was in Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974), in which he featured together with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins.

He was given a Gregory Award in 1972, won the National Poetry Competition in 1984 and was given the Dylan Thomas Award in 1993. Then in 1994 Curtis became Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. In 1997 he received a Cholmondeley Award. He established a Creative Writing course at the university, and developed a M.Phil. in Writing course there, which he ran for sixteen years.[2] Tony Curtis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001, and in 2004 he was awarded the first D.Litt. by the University of Glamorgan. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales (Glamorgan).In 2014, Dylan Thomas's centenary year, he toured a talk based on his memoir "My Life with Dylan Thomas". In September 2015 he visits the USA with that talk and other poetry readings. From May 2015 he will act as visiting poet at Dyffryn House and Gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan, close to Barry where he lives. In that month he curated the first exhibition of Ceri Richards Dylan Thomas-inspired paintings at the Boathouse in Laugharne.

Works

References

  1. ↑ British Council: Contemporary Writers
  2. ↑ Guardian Books