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The Anglo-Welsh poet, writer, critic and lecturer Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in 1946 and educated at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont. He made his poetical book debut in Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (Welsh Arts Council, 1974), in which he featured together with the poet, writer and dramatist Duncan Bush (see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Bush) and the poet, writer, psychogeographer and broadcaster Nigel Jenkins (see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Jenkins; Nigel Jenkins Papers at NLW). His several collections of poetry include War Voices (1995), The Arches (1998), Heaven's Gate (2001), Crossing Over (2007) and From the Fortunate Isles (2016) and his collection of stories, Some Kind of Immortality, was published in 2017, while his critical works include The Art of Seamus Heaney (1982) and Dannie Abse (Writers of Wales series) (1985). He has edited several poetical volumes, including The Poetry of Pembrokeshire and The Poetry of Snowdonia (both published 1989) , Coal: an anthology of Mining (1997) and tokens for the Foundlings (2014). His first novel, Darkness in the City of Light, was published in 2021 and shortlisted for the Society of Authors Paul Torday Memorial Prize. Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales, where he established the Creative Writing course in the 1980s and directed the M. Phil. In Writing course. Amongst Curtis's many achievements are the Eric Gregory Award in 1972, the National Poetry Prize in 1984, the Dylan Thomas Awrd in 1993 and the Cholmondeley Awrd in 1997. He was elected Fellow of the Royal society of Literature in 2001 and awarded a D. Litt. in 2004. Curtis has toured extensively giving poetry readings and lectures. (tonycurtispoet.com; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis_(Welsh_poet))
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Hitherto disparate series of Tony Curtis material collated by Bethan Ifan, the work begun November 2023
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Description compiled by Bethan Ifan, November 2023.