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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis
_ Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in west Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont, and is the author of several collections of poetry, including War Voices (1995); The Arches (1998)  Heaven's Gate (2001) and Crossing Over (2007).

 He has also written books of criticism, including How Poets Work (1996) and Welsh Painters Talking (1997), The Art of Seamus Heaney (1982) and Dannie Abse (1985). He is the editor of several books, including The Poetry of Pembrokeshire (1989); The Poetry of Snowdonia (1989)  Coal: an anthology of mining (1997), After the First Death - Wales and War in the C20th (2007) and Tokens for the Foundlings (2012).

 Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directed the M. Phil Writing course. He was awarded a D. Litt by the university in 2004.  He has toured extensively giving poetry readings and lectures and won the National Poetry Prize in 1984, the 1993 Dylan Thomas Award and a Cholmondeley Award in 1997. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature in 2001. He lives in Barry, Wales.