List Of Writers

DAVIES, DAMIAN WALFORD

English Department, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY

Poet, literary critic and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the co-author of a volume of poems, Whiteout (Parthian, 2006), and his collection, Suit of Lights, is forthcoming from Seren (2009). Damian’s fields of expertise include Romanticism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, and the two literatures of Wales. He has written extensively on R. S. Thomas, and in 1999 he produced the recording R. S. Thomas Reading the Poems. His study, Presences that Disturb: Models of Romantic Identity in the Literature and Culture of the 1790s (University of Wales Press, 2002), was co-recipient of the 2003 Foster–Watson Prize, and his edition of the prose works of Waldo Williams won the Ellis Griffith and L. W. Davies Prizes in 2002/3. He is General Editor of The Oxford Literary History of Wales, and was one of the three judges of the 2008 Wales Book of the Year.

Selected Publications:
Presences that Disturb: Models of Romantic Identity in the Literature and Culture of the 1790s (University of Wales Press, 2002)
Suit of Lights (Seren, 2009)

Contributed to:
Waldo Williams: Rhyddiaith (editor) (University of Wales Press, 2001)
Echoes to the Amen: Essays after R.S. Thomas (editor)(University of Wales Press, 2003)
The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature (co-editor) (Wayne State University Press, 2006)
Cof ac Arwydd: Ysgrifau Newydd ar Waldo Williams (co-editor) (Barddas, 2006)
Megalith: Eleven Journeys in Search of Stones (editor) (Gomer, 2006)
Whiteout (co-writer) (Parthian, 2006)
Wales and the Romantic Imagination (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2007)
Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy (editor) (Routledge, 2008)
Echoes to the Amen - Essays After R. S. Thomas (editor) (University of Wales Press, 2009)