List Of Writers
CLUYSENAAR, ANNE
Little Wentwood Farm, Llantrisant, USK, Gwent NP15 1ND
Tel: 01291-673797
Poet. Born in Belgium, Irish citizen, educated Trinity College Dublin and University of Edinburgh. Secretary, Usk Valley Vaughan Association, editor/poetry editor Scintilla, visiting teacher of creative writing at the University of Wales, Cardiff. In preparation: On the Wallace Line, a book of poems exploring material and spiritual evolution, and including a poetic biography of Usk-born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace; also text for son et lumière, Tintern 2000.
Selected Publications:
New Poets of Ireland (Denver, 1963)
Nodes: Selected poems, 1960-1968 (Poetry Ireland Editions) (Dolmen Press, 1971)
Introduction to Literary Stylistics: A Discussion of Dominant Structure in Verse and Prose (Batsford, 1976)
Poetry Introduction 4 (Faber and Faber, 1978)
Double Helix (Carcanet, 1982)
Timeslips, New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1997)
The Life of Metrical and Free Verse (Jon Silkin, 1997)
Batu-Angas (Seren, 2008)
Contributed to:
English Poetry since 1960 (contributor) (Carcanet, 1972)
The Virago Book of Love Poetry (contributor) (Virago, 1990)
The White Page/An Phileog Bhan - Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (contributor) (Salmon, 1999)
Scintilla (Scintilla (Usk)) (co-editor) (Usk Valley Vaughan Association, 2000)
The Hare That Hides Within: Poems About St. Melangell (co-editor) (Parthian, 2004)
Is a Religious Poem Possible in the Early 21st Century? (co-editor) (Flarestack, 2004)
Eligible writers on tour subjects offered:
1. Writing workshops - writing as discovery and healing (including special needs); natural history, the cosmos, relationships between material and spiritual evolution; myth and legend; ancestors, family and personal memories
2. Study workshops - the life and poetry of Henry Vaughan; Celtic spirituality; poetic forms
3. Scintilla writing workshops, readings, discussions with Graham Hartill and Hilary Llewellyn Williams (these poets may be booked jointly or singly)
AGE RANGE: Upper secondary school, adults. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Prior discussion with organiser