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RHYDDERCH, SAMANTHA WYNNE

Email: sassy@rhydderch.com
Website: http://www.rhydderch.com/

Samantha grew up in New Quay, Ceredigion where she still lives. She read Classics at Cambridge followed by an M.A. in Writing at Cardiff University. She lived in Oxford, Paris and the Isles of Scilly before returning to New Quay.

Samantha was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005 to write her debut collection for Picador, Not In These Shoes, due to be published in June 2008.

Reviews:

 “…Robert Graves wrote There is a sense of life so real that it becomes the sense of something more real than life…It is the meaning at work in what has no meaning; it is, at its clearest, poetry. Samantha Wynne–Rhydderch’s volume Rockclimbing in Silk (this book gets the prize for best title) finds a way out of the autobiography dilemma. Here’s a poet who can slide Big Bill Broonzy’s cocky little number, I Did It All By Myself onto the player and dance around the room……..This willingness to run with invention has a sort of gangster chic about it. I like the way Wynne–Rhydderch combs the rich world of cliché for targets and sprays them with the Thompson machine-gun of her style. She’s a sort of literary Bonnie Parker, reminding you sometimes of Carol Ann Duffy……, sometimes of a cooler Rosemary Tonks…”
John Hartley Williams, Poetry Wales Autumn 2005 vol. 41, no. 3


Selected Publications:
Rockclimbing in Silk (Seren, 2001)
Not In These Shoes (Picador, 2008)



Not in These Shoes (Picador, 2008)

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s debut collection for Picador introduces a young poet with a remarkable range of imaginative tactics at her disposal, and seems to announce not one, but several new voices. Not In These Shoes is an act of uncanny ventriloquism, and a distinct spirit seems to haunt each of Wynne-Rhydderch’s meticulously drawn spaces. Whether conjuring the interior of a toy snowstorm, a flooded valley, a woman in a backless dress, a ship’s figurehead or a matador in a hotel room, Wynne-Rhydderch finds a voice that perfectly commands our attention.

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