List Of Writers
WILTON–JONES, ANNI
Ty Beirdd, 53 Church Street, Ebbw Vale, NP23 6BG
Tel/Fax: 01495 305463
Mobile: 07971 766691
Email: anni@wiltonjones.fsnet.co.uk
Website: under reconstruction
Poet and occasional prose writer. Born, of Welsh and English parents, on the Wirral and raised in Weymouth, Anni moved to Wales in 1982. She has lived here ever since, apart from a three year interlude in Saudi Arabia. In her forties, while bringing up her seven children, she studied English Literature and Education for her Open University BA degree. At fifty, after 22 years at home spent raising and home-educating her family, she was a late returner to employment. She gained a qualification in teaching adults followed by an MA in Special Educational Needs, specialising in Specific Learning Difficulties (eg Dyslexia). She lives in Ebbw Vale and works for University of Wales, Newport as a Senior Lecturer: Additional Learning Needs.
She has been a performance poet for many years and has appeared in Wales, England, the USA and Ireland, where she is known as Áine an Caipín (Anne of the Cap) because of her addiction to colour-co-ordinated jockey-style caps! Her poetry ranges from traditional forms to modern free verse, covering a wide range of subjects – domestic, demanding, intimate and international – and straying occasionally into the Welsh language. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a number of publications, including The Cuirt Journal, Of Sawn Grain, Salvo, The Scotsman and Index on Censorship and she has produced a solo CD of poetry reading, Anam Cara, and another, This is… Salem, as part of a team of five poets. She also offers workshops in creative writing and drama and is Chairman of the Scriveners, a writers’ group which is based in Abergavenny. She is currently preparing her new collection which is due out shortly.
Selected Publications:
Bridges (Stonebridge Publications, 1999)
Moth (under the pen-name of Victoria Tims) (Stonebridge Publications, 2001)
Light Touch (Stonebridge Publications, 2003)
Contributed to:
This is… Salem (co-writer) (Stonebridge Publications, 1999)
Fresh Voices for Younger Listeners (co-writer) (Stonebridge Publications, 2000)
Bridges (Stonebridge Publications, 1999)
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