List Of Writers

PERRY, ALAN

76 Terrace Road, Mount Pleasant, Swansea SA1 6HU
Tel: (01792) 418435

Arts Co–ordinator to the Cyrenians Cymru. Poems broadcast on BBC, HTV, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; recorded on two EMI records and published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Alan has read his works extensively in Canada and USA as well as in Britain. He won the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry 1970 and was a Writer–in-Residence at the Ilkley Literature Festival 1977.He also ran a major one-man Travelling Exhibition, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 1993. Running Man (an exhibition) and Occupied Territories (a play), were both co-written with Lloyd Rees and were premiered at Ty Llên during the UK Year of Literature in 1995. Alan’s performance piece, Music You Don’t Normally Hear (based on his book of the same name) has been staged at several venues in Wales.

Selected Publications:
Characters: Poems (Christopher Davies, 1969)
Live Wires (Christopher Davies, 1970)
Fires on the Common (Christopher Davies, 1975)
To Al and Back: A Journal of the First Canadian/Welsh Writer’s Exchange (Castaway Press)
Shards: Paintings, Drawings and Poems (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 1993)
Dreaming from North to South (Moonstone Press, 2006)
Days of the Comet: New and Selected Stories (Moonstone Press, 2007)
Uturns (Moonstone Press, 2007)

Contributed to:
To Liu and all Mankind (co-writer) (Tooth and Nail Press, 1995)

Eligible writers on tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work, painting and writing (with aid of slides)
2. Workshops (creative writing/painting)

AGE RANGE: 9-99. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Possible use of slide projector (but not essential)