List Of Writers

GREGSON, IAN

English Department, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd  LL57 2DG
Tel: 01248 382112
Email:  i.gregson@bangor.ac.uk

Ian Gregson was born in Manchester in 1953. He read English at Oxford and completed a PhD at the University of Hull. In 1981 he received a Gregory Award for his poetry, which has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, and the London Review of Books amongst others. His poetry was also featured in the anthology A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull, edited by Douglas Dunn. He has also reviewed poetry for a wide range of journals. His new selection of poems will be coming out in 2006 entitled, Call Centre Love Song (Salt Publishing). He lectures on 19th and 20th Century Poetry, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, The Short Story and Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Selected Publications:
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement (Macmillan / St Martin’s Press, 1996)
The Male Image: Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry (Macmillan / St Martin’s Press, 1999)
Postmodern Literature (Arnold, 2004)
Call Centre Love Song (Salt Publishing, 2006)
Character and Satire in Post–war Fiction: Satirising the Self (Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2006)
The New Poetry in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2007)

Contributed to:
A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull (contributor) (Bloodaxe, 1982)




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