List Of Writers

GOODBY, JOHN

26 Sketty Park Drive, Swansea SA2 8LN
Tel: (01792) 412696 (home)
Email: j.goodby@swansea.ac.uk

John Goodby was born in Kingstanding, Birmingham, in 1958, and attended schools in the city before taking degrees at the Universities of Hull and Leeds.  Since 1988 he has taught English Literature at the University of Leeds, University College Cork, and the University of Wales Swansea, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer.  He is the author of a study of modern Irish poetry Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History (Manchester University Press, 2000), and has edited books on Dylan Thomas and on Irish Studies. At present he is on AHRC-funded research leave, completing a new study of Thomas’s poetry for publication by Seren in 2007. He is also the author of the poetry collection A Birmingham Yank (Arc Publications, 1998) and a translation of Heinrich Heine’s Germany: A Winter’s Tale (Smokestack Books, 2006). He won the 2006 Cardiff International Poetry Competition. John Goodby lives in Swansea with his wife and two children.

John is also a part of ’Boiled String’, a multi-voiced, multi-media group who specialise in presenting their own and specially-commissioned innovative / experimental poetic works. Please see their entry for more details.

Selected Publications:
The Fire Kings (youth opera, with Kevin O’Connell: Derry 1995, Los Angeles 1997)
The Birmingham Yank (Arc, 1998)
Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History (Manchester University Press, 2000)
Dylan Thomas (Seren, 2000)
Dylan Thomas: New Casebook (Palgrave, 2001)
Irish Studies (Hodder Arnold, 2003)
uncaged sea (Waterloo Press, 2008)

Contributed to:
Colonies of Belief: New and Experimental Irish Poetry (editor) (1999)
Germany: A Winter’s Tale (editor) (Smokestack, 2005)

Eligible Writer on Tour subects offered:
1. Readings/discussion of own poetry
2. Poetics workshops
3. Contemporary Irish poetry and fiction
4. Dylan Thomas
5. Writing Wales from the margins
6. Heinrich Heine
7. Linguistically innovative poetry in England, Wales and the USA

AGE RANGE: Very young children, older teenagers, adults

Please also see the listing under ’Boiled String’ for other opportunities.