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Gladys Mary Coles Launches Song of the Butcher Bird in Mold Library

The launch of Gladys Mary Coles’ new book Song of the Butcher Bird and Dr Edmund Cusick latest work, Ice Maidens will take place on Tuesday 7 November 2006, 7.30 pm in Mold Library. This is a free event with wine.

For further details contact the Academi’s North Wales office on 01766 522817 or email olwen@academi.org.

Gladys Mary Coles: Poet, biographer, publisher and tutor of creative writing, Gladys was educated in Wales and at the universities of Liverpool and London. Her published work includes nine collections of poetry, six anthologies and two biographies of Mary Webb. Gladys’ poetry has been anthologised by Faber, Cassell, Virago, the Forward Prizes, Seren, Collins, as well as being broadcast on BBC TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC Wales. Other broadcasts include a Kaleidoscope special feature. She was editor of the Bulletin of The Welsh Academy, 1995–98. Gladys is a lecturer in Imaginative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University and also at the University of Liverpool. She is President of the Mary Webb Society and runs the literary press, Headlands Publications. Gladys has tutored courses for the Arvon Foundation and at Ty Newydd, and is a frequent adjudicator of poetry competitions.

Dr Edmund Cusick is a storyteller, poet and Head of the Writing Dept at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a winner of the Housman Poetry Prize (1998) and is current holder of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Prize (2005). In 1998 he was awarded a Jerwood writing fellowship. Dr Cusick is the author of two collections of original poetry Gronw’s Stone (1997) and Ice Maidens (Spring 2006) and is editor of poetry anthology Blodeuwedd (2001). He has also edited, and written a critical introduction to, a volume of Rose Flint’s Poetry Firesigns (Salzburg , 2004).