List Of Writers

MILLS, TÔPHER

122 Clive Street, Grangetown, Cardiff CF11 7JE
Tel: (029) 20403280
Email: topherm@ntlworld.com

Born in Cardiff, where he still lives. Poet, fiction writer and performer. A founder member of Cabaret 246, Undercover Writers and Working Title Writers. From 1983 – 1995 he ran Red Sharks Press, which published over sixty books, magazines and audio works. His own work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies around the world. He has written a regular review column in the Western Mail and worked on radio, television and film as a performer and scriptwriter. He is a full member of Academi and from 1997 to 2001, was Chairman of the Welsh Union of Writers.

Reviews;

“…Mills has elevated himself to the position of arch Cardiff poet. He represents the best of contemporary performance poetry in Wales...”
Peter Finch, Poetry Wales

“...Tôpher Mills has a way with images, slick witty and visually precise. With wry urban humour the poems in this collection are hilarious but they hurt as well. Mills is a kind of street-wise Romantic, quirky original and worth reading...”
Stewart Brown, Anglo-Welsh Review

“...Who the hell is Tôpher Mills?..”  
Sara Keays, The Independent


 Selected Publications:
Radical Anti-sheepism (Red Sharks Press, 1992)
The Bicycle is an Easy Pancake (Red Sharks Press, 1992)
Tide Memory (Red Sharks Press, 1992)
Something’s Awry (Red Sharks Press, 1992)
The Dancing Drayman (Red Sharks Press, 1993)
Swimming in the Living Room (Red Sharks Press, 1995)



Eligible writers on tour subjects offered:
1. Read, perform and discuss own work
2. How to get published
3. How to publish yourself
4. Creativity and where to get your ideas from
5. How to make poetry come alive in performance
6. Anti-sheepism - is it about ewe?

AGE RANGE: Seven to seventy and even beyond