List Of Writers

BENDON, CHRIS

14 Maesyderi, Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7EP

Poet, playwright, short–fiction writer, critic. Awarded Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial Trophy, £1,000 in the World Wide Fund for Nature/Guardian Poetry Competition. Runner–up in Welsh Arts Council’s ’A Poem for Today’ Competition. Poems in New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Planet, Poetry Review, Acumen, Poetry London Newsletter, The Green Book, Outposts, London Magazine, Stand, Prospice, The Rialto, Lines Review, Verse, Chapman, Bête Noire, Salmon, California State Poetry Quarterly, New England Review, Poetry Canada Review, Poetry Australia. Chris’ poems have also been anthologised widely.

Feedback:

"…energetic, original, striking and stimulating poems…"
Poetry Review

"...Lots to admire. Inventive, brave, at times perverse. I also like ’Great & Good’ very much. As ever, so much to admire..."
Robert Minhinnick, Poetry Wales 

"...You have, it seems to me, a great fluency with words, a great curiosity about the world and a wide range of disparate knowledge..."
John Barnie, Planet

With respect to Constructions (Gomer, 1991)

"...We liked a lot of the poems, had our breath taken by some of them..."
Seren Books

With respect to Hey, Feverish? (a poetical novel) - first thirty pages

"...very readable and entertaining..."
Meic Stephens


Selected Publications:
In Praise of Low Music (Outcrop, 1981)
Software (Spectrum, 1984)
Aetat.23: A Poetical Séance (Spectrum, 1985)
Matter (Spectrum, 1986)
Cork Memory (Stride Publications, 1987)
The Posthumous Poem (Spectrum, 1989)
Ridings Writings/Scottish Gothic (Stride, 1990)
Constructions (Gomer, 1991)
A Dyfed Quartet (Headland, 1992)
Perspective Lessons, Virtual Lines… (Rockingham, 1992)
Jewry (Poetry Salzburg, 1995)
Crossover: A Play on Words or Libretto for an Imaginary Opera (Poetry Salzburg, 1996)
Novella (Poetry Salzburg, 1997)