Tony Curtis FRSL is an Anglo-Welsh poet

Anglo-Welsh poetry

There is no clear definition of what constitutes Anglo-Welsh poetry, and the term tends to have been replaced by the broader "Welsh writing in English" or Welsh literature in English. It includes poetry written by Welsh people whose first language is English, but it also includes poetry by those...

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Curtis was born in Carmarthen

Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....

 and educated at the University of Wales, Swansea. He subsequently studied for the MFA degree at Goddard College

Goddard College

Goddard College is a private, liberal arts college located in Plainfield, Vermont, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Goddard College currently operates on an intensive low-residency model...

, Vermont

Vermont

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, becoming the only British writer ever to graduate from that course.

His debut in print was Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974), in which he featured together with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins

Nigel Jenkins

Nigel Jenkins is one of Wales's foremost poets. Jenkins is also an editor, journalist, broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction...

. He was given a Gregory Award in 1972. He was winner of the National Poetry Competition in 1984 and the Dylan Thomas Award in 1993. In 1994 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan

University of Glamorgan

The University of Glamorgan is a university based in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales with campuses in Treforest, Glyntaff, Merthyr Tydfil, Tyn y Wern and Cardiff...

. In 1997 he received a Cholmondeley Award. He founded Creative Writing as a subject at the university and developed the Masters course there which he ran for sixteen years:the M.Phil. in Writing. He was awarded the first D.Litt. by the University of Glamorgan in 2004. In 2001 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...

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Works

• Album (1974)
• Preparations (1980)
• The Art of Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  (ed.) (1982)
• Letting Go (1983)
• Dannie Abse
  Dannie Abse
  Daniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse , is a Welsh poet.-Early years:Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse...
  
  (Writers of Wales series 1985)
• Selected Poems 1970-85 (1986)
• " Poems Selected and New (USA 1996)
• The Last Candles (1989)
• "The Poetry of Snowdonia ed. (1989)
• "The Poetry Of Pembrokeshire ed. (1989)
• " Love from Wales ed. with Sian James (1991 and five reprintings)
• Taken for Pearls (1993)
• War Voices (1995)
• " Welsh Painters Talking (1997)
• "Coal: an anthology of Mining Ed.(1997)
• "The Arches (with artist John Digby) (1998)
• " Welsh Artists Talking (2001)
• "Heaven's Gate (2001)
• "Crossing Over (2007)

- "Following Petra" (2008)
- "The Meaning of Apricot Sponge - Selected Writing of John Tripp" (2010)
- "Real South Pembrokeshire" (2011)