List Of Writers
WARD, JOHN POWELL
Court Lodge, Horton Kirby, Dartford, Kent DA4 9BM.
Tel: (01322) 865356
Born in Felixtowe, Suffolk, in 1937 and educated at the Universities of Toronto, Cambridge and Wales. John then lectured at the University of Wales for 25 years. A poet and critic, English with Welsh and Canadian connections. John is a Honorary Research Fellow at University College, Swansea and was Editor of Poetry Wales 1979–1980. A regular editor and presenter of BBC Radio 3 programme Poetry Now 1977–1984, his poetry and criticism appeared in many major magazines. John has contributed to TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Australia, Bete Noire, Acumen, Poetry Durham, PN Review, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, BBC Radio 3 and 4 and elsewhere. He won Welsh Arts Council prizes in 1982 and 1985.
Selected Publications:
Line of Knowledge (Triskel Poets Series) (Christopher Davies, 1972)
From Alphabet to Logos (Second Aeon Folder Series) (Second Aeon, 1973)
Before Experience (Sceptre, 1974)
Poetry and the Sociological Idea (Harvester Studies in Contemporary Literature and Culture) (Harvester Press, 1981)
To Get Clear (Poetry Wales Press, 1981)
Raymond Williams (University of Wales Press, 1981)
Things (Bran’s Head Books, 1982)
Wordsworth’s Language of Men (Harvester Press, 1984)
To Get Clear, The Clearing (Welsh Arts Council Poetry Prize 1985) The Poetry of R.S. Thomas (Seren, 1987)
The English Line (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991)
Thomas Hardy’s Poetry (Open Guides to Literature) (Open University Press, 1992)
"As You Like It" (Harvester New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare) (Prentice Hall, 1992)
As You Like It: Twayne’s New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare, No 15 (Twayne’s New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare) (Twayne, 1993)
The Clearing (Seren, 1994)
A Certain Marvellous Thing (Seren, 1995)
Genesis (Seren, 1996)
Late Thoughts in March (Seren, 1999)
Selected and New Poems (Seren, 2004)
The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004)
The Last Green Year (Cinnamon, 2009)
Eligible Writers on Tour subjects:
1. Poetry readings
2. Talks on nineteenth century, twentieth century and contemporary poetry
AGE RANGE: Adult.