List Of Writers
JENKINS, NIGEL
1st Floor Flat, 11 Chapel Street, Mumbles, Abertawe SA3 4NH or c/o Department of English, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP
Tel (work): 01792 295338
Mobile: 07870 832643
Email: N.Jenkins@Swansea.ac.uk
Born on a farm in Gower, 1949, Nigel Jenkins was a newspaper reporter in the English Midlands for four years, and then, following a period of travel, studied literature and film at the University of Essex. After working on a circus on the States, he returned to live in Wales in 1976. He has earned his living since then as a writer and lecturer, and co–edited the Academi’s Encyclopaedia of Wales. He has worked as a journalist and has written for the stage. Nigel has also written ’site specific’ poetry for locations in Swansea and elsewhere, and frequently gives public readings of his work; in 1997 he did a reading tour of the States with Menna Elfyn and Iwan Llwyd, and is a member of the blues and poetry trio the Salubrious Rhythm Company (see their entry). Nigel is Winner of the Welsh Arts Council Young Poets Prize (1974), Eric Gregory Award (1976), John Morgan Writing Award (1992) and the
John Tripp Poetry Slam (1999). His travel book Gwalia in Khasia (Gomer Press, 1995), is an account of Welsh missionaries among the Khasi people of north-east India. It won the Wales Book of the Year award in 1996. Nigel is a Fellow of Academi and one of the editors of The Welsh Academy National Encyclopaedia of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2007).
Selected Publications:
First Collection: Poems (Smoothie, 1972)
Circus (Swansea Poetry Workshop, 1979)
Song and Dance (Poetry Wales Press)
Practical Dreams (Galloping Dog Press, 1983)
Writers of Wales: John Tripp (University of Wales Press, 1989)
Acts of Union: Selected Poems 1974-1989 (Gomer Press, 1990)
Gwalia in Khasia (Gomer Press, 1995)
Llangadog (Cyfres Y Man A’r Lle) (Gwasg Gregynog Ltd, 1996)
Remember Tomorrow (Beekman, 1997)
Ambush (Gomer Press, 1998)
Footsore on the Frontier - Selected Essays and Articles (Gomer Press, 2001)
Through the Green Door: Travels among the Khasis (Penguin, 2001)
Blue (Planet, 2002)
Hotel Gwales (Gomer Press, 2006)
O For a Gun (Planet, 2007)
Real Swansea (Seren, 2008)
Gower (Gomer, 2009)
Contributed to:
Glas-nos (co-editor) (CND Cymru, 1987)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Conran (editor) (The Welsh Union of Writers, 1995)
Wales: the Lie of the Land (collaborator with photographer Jeremy Moore) (Gomer Press, 1996)
The Welsh Academy National Encyclopaedia of Wales (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2007)
Never Mind the White Socks Here’s Merthyr Tydfil (contributor) (Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council Arts Division, 2007)
The Sand Garden - El Jardin de Arena by Humberto Gatica (afterword) (Hafan Books, 2008)
Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work
2. Workshops
3. Creative writing (poetry, short stories, plays, biography)
4. Journalism
AGE RANGE: 15-18 and adults for own work, talks and workshops