List Of Writers

KNIGHT, PHIL

12 Cook–Rees Avenue, Hillside, Neath, SA11 1UN
Tel: (01639) 646187 (home); (01639) 633662 (work)

Poet and writer. Born in Neath in 1965. Graduate of the Polytechnic of Wales, 1988. Active on the far Left from early teens. Joined the Anti–Nazi League and the Socialist Workers’ Party in 1993. Poetry comments on a wide range of social and political issues. He believes a knowledge of the past helps in understanding the present. Phil’s poems have been published in The Pen, Linkway, Wire, City Writings, Y Faner Goch, Target, ECTO-1, Quantum Leap, Solizzi and others.

Selected Publications:
Images of Past and Present - a collection of Poems (Aramby Publishing, 1996)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own poetry and tradition of political poetry
2. Dylan Thomas: life, poetry, politics
3. Poetry and the Industrial Revolution; from the Romantics to the Chartists
4. John Milton: Paradise Lost and the fall of the English Republic

AGE RANGE: Students/adults. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Non car-driver