List Of Writers

FORSHAW, CLIFF

Pen–y–Braich, Braichtalog, Tregarth, Bangor, LL57 4PB
Tel: (01248) 601 493
Email: cliff@forshaw.freeserve.co.uk
Web: http://www.geocities.com/cliff_forshaw2002

Poet. Born in Liverpool in 1953, Cliff now lives on edge of Snowdonia. He has taught English in Spain, Mexico, Germany, Italy and New York and developed language courses for Linguaphone and written educational scripts for the BBC World Service. More recently, Cliff has taught Creative Writing at University of Wales, Bangor, and for the Open College of the Arts; summer courses in literature/ language skills at Oxford Brookes and Durham Universities. He has a MA in Renaissance Studies with Distinction (London) and a D.Phil (Oxford) on Elizabeth literature, publishing on Renaissance literature, myth and Ovid; verse translations from German, French and Spanish. Awards: Blue Nose Poet-of-the-Year 1994; Hawthorden Creative Writing Fellow 1998; Academi’s John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry 2002. Anthology appearances include Forward Prize anthology 1996; New Writing 4 (Vintage/ British Council). New collection, Verb Sap, due from the Collective Press, Wales; a selection from earlier books will appear in The Perodactyl’s Wing, Parthian’s anthology of new Welsh Poetry.

Selected Publications:
Esau’s Children (National Poetry Foundation, 1991)
Himalayan Fish (Peacock Books, 1991)
Minus Twenty-seven: three Poems for a Russian New Year (Weasel, 1993)
Strange Tongues (Weasel, 1994)
The Dade County Book of the Dead (National Poetry Foundation, 1995)
Trans (The Collective Press, 2005)


Eligible Writers on Tour subjects:
1. Readings from/ discussions of own poetry.
2. Translation and recreation - how to make new poems from old ones with examples from Pound, Auden, Tony Harrison, Simon Armitage and others.
3. Aspects of Elizabeth literature.
4. Ovid in English - using myth from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes.
5. Creative writing workshops in poetry.

AGE-RANGE: Older secondary school/ Adults