List Of Writers

HOUSTON, DOUGLAS

’Brynheulog’, Cwmbrwyno, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3PG Tel: (01970) 880316

Poet. Born in Cardiff in 1947 and educated at the University of Hull, obtaining PhD for work on Auden and Heaney. First published as one of the Hull Poets in the late 1970s. Douglas is a freelance writer, part–time university tutor and literary researcher. His poetry has been published in numerous significant anthologies, including Meic Stephens’ The Bright Field (Carcanet, 1991) and Dannie Abse’s Twentieth–Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (Seren, 1997).

Selected Publications:
With the Offal Eaters (Bloodaxe, 1986)
The Hunters in the Snow (Bloodaxe, 1994)
The Welsh Book of the Dead (Seren, 2000)

Contributed to:
The Bright Field (contributor) (Carcanet, 1991)
Twentieth-Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (contributor) (Seren, 1997)
Good Fiction Guide (co-editor) (Oxford University Press, 2001)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings from and discussions of own poetry
2. Talks/lectures on numerous poets from Romantic era onward
3. Wokshops in creative writing and poetic technique

AGE RANGE: Late adolescent and adult