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BIDGOOD, RUTH

2 Wylfa, Beulah, Llanwrytd Wells, Powys LD5 4UY.
Tel: (01591) 620779

Born Seven Sisters, Glamorgan. Educated Port Talbot and Oxford University. WRNS (Coder). Sub–editor Chambers Encyclopedia. After many years in Surrey, Ruth returned to Wales and started to write poems and local history. Her eighth collection of poems was published by Seren in 2000: the second received a Welsh Arts Council award; the sixth and seventh were shortlisted for the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 1993 and 1997. Ruth has has poems and historical articles in various journals.

Selected Publications:
The Given Time (Christopher Davies, 1972)
Not Without Homage (Christopher Davies, 1975)
The Print of Miracle (J.D Lewis, 1978)
Lighting Candles: New and Selected Poems (Seren, 1982)
Kindred (Seren, 1986)
Selected Poems (Seren, 1992)
The Fluent Moment (Seren, 1996)
Bwlch Y Ddau Faen: Abergwesyn (Cyfres Y Man A’r Lle/Places S.) (Gwasg Gregynog, 1997)
Singing to Wolves (Seren, 2000)
Parishes of the Buzzard (Alun Books, 2001)
New and Selected Poems (Seren, 2004)
Symbols of Plenty: Collected Poems (Canterbury Press Norwich, 2006)
Hearing Voices (Cinnamon, 2008)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
Willing to read and talk about own work

AGE RANGE: Sixth form upwards. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Transport and/or overnight accommodation usually necessary