List Of Writers

RUMENS, CAROL

Buarth Gwarchau, Pentir, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 4EF
Email: c.rumens@bangor.ac.uk

Poet, reviewer, occasional translator. Carol was born in South London in 1944 and educated at the University of London and Manchester City College. She has published eleven volumes of poetry, one novel,(Plato Park) many reviews, and has had a couple of plays produced. Her most recent honour, before being invited to join the Academi, was to be shortlisted for the Belfast City Arts Award in 1999 for Holding Pattern (Blackstaff, 1998). She teaches creative writing at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Selected Publications:
Scenes from the Gingerbread House (Bloodaxe, 1982)
Direct Dialling (Chatto and Windus, 1985)
Icons Waves (The Star Wheel Press, 1986)
Plato Park (Chatto and Windus, 1987)
Selected Poems (Chatto and Windus, 1987)
From Berlin to Heaven (Chatto and Windus, 1987)
The Greening of the Snow Beach (Bloodaxe, 1988)
Thinking of Skins: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 1995)
Best China Sky (Bloodaxe, 1997)
Fiction: Carol Rumens Selected (Ramboro, 1997)
Holding Pattern (Blackstaff, 1998)
December Tennis (Bloodaxe, 2002)
Hex (Bloodaxe, 2002)
Poems 1968 - 2004 (Bloodaxe, 2004)
Writing Poetry (Routledge Study Guides) (Bloodaxe, 2006)
Self Into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Lectures (Bloodaxe, 2007)
Blind Spots (Seren, 2008)

Contributed to:
Making for the Open: the Chatto Book of Post–Feminist Poetry 1964–1984 (editor) (Chatto and Windus, 1985)
Slipping Glimpses (editor) (Poetry Book Society, 1985)
New Women Poets (editor) (Bloodaxe, 1990)
The Miracle Diet (co-author) (Bloodaxe, 1997)
Poetry Plus Six (co-editor) (Poetry Anonymous, 2002)


Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Reading own work
2. Reading Russian translations with collaborator and partner Yuri Drobyshev reciting Russian originals
3. Writing workshops, from beginners to advanced

AGE RANGE: young adults upwards