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Poetry Reading at the University of Glamorgan(Treforest Campus)

Wendy Mulford Reading her poetry, and in conversation with Alice Entwistle

Room G311, 2:00pm - 3:15pm, Monday 10 December 2007

All welcome: free entry!

Wendy Mulford is the author of eight collections of poetry and several works of prose. Probably best known for her poetry, which started to appear in the mid-seventies, in the context of the rise of the Women’s Liberation Movement, Wendy Mulford was raised near Abergavenny; she spent most of her childhood there and in the Usk valley in Wales. She now lives in Suffolk having spent many years living and teaching in London and Cambridge. She has worked inter alia as a croupier, publisher, printer, lecturer, researcher and counsellor, founding, among other things, the influential experimental publishers Street Editions Press in 1972. Over the years she has given many readings and taken part in numerous literary Festivals in Britain and abroad. She is currently in training to be a Jungian analyst. 

Recent/forthcoming publications:

Selected Poems: and suddenly, supposing (Etruscan Books, 2002)

The Land Between: Poems 2000-7 (Reality Street Editions, 2008)

Listening through the nightwood, with Anne Beresford, Herbert Lomas and Pauline Stainer (Orphean Press, 2008)

Wendy’s poetry has been included in Out of Everywhere: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America and the UK ed. Maggie O’Sullivan (Reality Street, 1996) and will appear in The Shearsman Anthology of Innovative Women Poets ed. Carrie Etter (forthcoming). It has been discussed in a variety of critical texts, including A History of British Women’s Poetry by Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle (Cambridge, 2005); her work will also be featured in Alice Entwistle’s forthcoming critical study In These Stones: Women writing poetry in and out of Wales (Seren). New poems will appear in issues of Poetry Wales and Artworld.

Further details contact: Dr Alice Entwistle, Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 1DL / (+44) 1443 483598 (direct line) / email: aentwist@glam.ac.uk .

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