List Of Writers
FREEMAN, JOHN
61 Radnor Road, Cardiff, CF5 1RA
Tel: (029) 2022 6814
Poet and critic. Born in Essex in 1946, he grew up in south London and lived in Yorkshire before settling in Wales. John has published several volumes of poetry and edited an anthology of contemporary British and American writing, Poetry in English Now (Blackweir Press, 1978). A Lecturer in English at University College, Cardiff since 1972, John specialises in modern poetry, the Romantics, and Creative Writing. He has wide experience of tutoring creative writing courses and workshops.
John has written numerous critical articles on modern poetry and nineteenth–century literature and has published essays on modern British and American poets in various magazines. He has also published articles on Shelley. John has edited a poetry magazine and a ’small press’ and is founder–secretary of the Welsh Association of Small Presses. He has given poetry readings and lectures in Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy. John was, for several years, a committee member of the Verbal Arts Association and on the editorial board of the Keats - Shelley Review. He was a winner of the 2004 Alexander Cordell Travel Writing Competition. A Suite for Summer (Worple Press, 2007) is his ninth collection and his first since Landscape with Portraits in 1999.
Selected Publications:
Snow Corridoors (Riveline Press, 1975)
A Vase of Honesty (Great Works Editions, 1976)
A Landscape Out of Focus (Galloping Dog Press, 1978)
More than Oneself (Infernal Methods, 1979)
The Unseizable (Stone Lantern Press, 1983)
Going Home (Rivelin Press, 1984)
The Light is of Love, I Think: New and Selected Poems (Stride, 1997)
Landscape with Portraits (Redback, 1999)
The Less Received: Neglected Modern Poets (Stride Publication, 2000)
Full Recovery - memories and stories inspried by Pontypool & District Hospital, September 2004
A Suite for Summer (Worple Press, 2007)
Contributed to:
Poetry in English Now (editor) (Blackweir Press, 1979)
Beats, Bohemians and Intellectuals (editor) (Trent Editions, 2000)
Black Waves in Cardiff Bay (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own poetry
2. Conduct writing workshops
3. Talk on twentieth-century poetry, contemporary poets
4. The poetry of Shelley, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and W.C. Williams
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Likes to receive some work beforehand for workshops