List Of Writers

COLES, GLADYS MARY

Ty Coch, Galltegfa, Llanfwrog, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 2AR
Tel: (0151) 625 9128; fax (0151) 625 9128

Poet, biographer, publisher and tutor of creative writing, Gladys was educated in Wales and at the universities of Liverpool and London. Her published work includes nine collections of poetry, six anthologies and two biographies of Mary Webb. Gladys’ poetry has been anthologised by Faber, Cassell, Virago, the Forward Prizes, Seren, Collins, as well as being broadcast on BBC TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC Wales. Other broadcasts include a ’Kaleidoscope’ special feature. She was editor of the Bulletin of The Welsh Academy, 1995–98. Gladys is a lecturer in Imaginative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University and also at the University of Liverpool. She is President of the Mary Webb Society and runs the literary press, Headlands Publications. Gladys has tutored courses for the Arvon Foundation and at Ty Newydd, and is a frequent sdjudicator of poetry competitions (most recently at the Cardiff International, Llandudno and Conwy Festivals).

Selected Publications:
Sounding Circle (Rondo Publications, 1975)
S, nerver: and Other Poems (Headland, 1977)
The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb (Duckworth, 1978)
Snowbird Sequence (Headland, 1984)
Liverpool Folio (Duckworth, 1984)
Studies in Stone: Poems (Windows Project, 1985)
Leafburners: New and Selected Poems (Duckworth, 1987)
Mary Webb (Border Lines Series) (Seren, 1990)
The Glass Island: Poems (Duckworth, 1992)
Both Sides of the River: Merseyside in Poetry and Prose (Headland, 1993)
Mary Webb and her Shropshire World: A Guide to the Mary Webb Country (Headland, 1994)
The Poet’s View: Poems for Paintings in the Walker Art Gallery (Headland, 1996)
Both Sides of the River Hb (Headland, 1997)
Secret Shropshire: A Video (Shropshire Books, 1998)
The Land Within: Poems (Gwasg Gee, 1999)
The Echoing Green (Flambard, 2001)
Song of the Butcher Bird (Flambard, 2006)

Contributed to:
Collected Prose and Poems (editor) (Wilding, 1977)
Selected Poems (editor) (Headland, 1981)
Walks with Writers (Exploring Shropshire Series) (with Gordan Dickins) (Shropshire Books, 1992)
Chester: A Collection of Stories – Stories from the Chester Literature Festival Short Story Competition (editor) (Chester City Council, 1997)
Wirral: An Anthology (Poets England Series) (editor) (Headland, 2002)
Poetry Pool: Poems from Liverpool John Moores University: volume 2. (co-editor) (Headland, 2005)




Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings from/ discussion of own poetry
2. The poetry and fiction of Mary Webb
3. Gerald Manley Hopkins, Wilfred Owen, other poets
4. Creative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, auto/ biography

AGE RANGE: Secondary school/ adults