Tony Curtis

1946

Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom

He taught English in secondary schools in Cheshire and Yorkshire before returning to Wales to a lecturing post. Tony Curtis"s book debut was in Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974),published by the Welsh Arts Council, in which he featured together with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins. Though in 1972 he had been included in the Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Series from Peterloo Press - Walk Down a Welsh Wind Then in 1994 Curtis became Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. He established a Creative Writing course at the university, and developed a Master of Philisophy in Writing course there, which he ran for sixteen years. Tony Curtis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001, and in 2004 he was awarded the first Doctor of Literature by the University of Glamorgan. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales (Glamorgan).In 2014, Dylan Thomas"s centenary year, he toured a talk based on his memoir "My Life with Dylan Thomas". In September 2015 he visits the United States of America with that talk and other poetry readings. From May 2015 he will act as visiting poet at Dyffryn House and Gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan. In that month he curated the first exhibition of Ceri Richards Dylan Thomas-inspired paintings at the Boathouse in Laugharne. In 2016 Seren Books will publish his From the Fortunate Isles: Selected Poems 1966-2016 In 2017 Cinnamon Press will publish his selected Stories: Throwing the Punch. Tony Curtis lives in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan and in Lydstep in Pembrokeshire.

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Background

Tony Curtis was born in 1946 in Carmarthen, and was educated at Swansea University.

Education

He subsequently studied for a Master of Fine Arts degree at Goddard College, Vermont. He introduced and developed Creative Writing at the Polytechnic of Wales and ran the Master of Philisophy In Writing when it became the University of Glamorgan.

Career

He taught English in secondary schools in Cheshire and Yorkshire before returning to Wales to a lecturing post. Tony Curtis"s book debut was in Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974),published by the Welsh Arts Council, in which he featured together with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins. Though in 1972 he had been included in the Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Series from Peterloo Press - Walk Down a Welsh Wind

Then in 1994 Curtis became Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan.

He established a Creative Writing course at the university, and developed a Master of Philisophy in Writing course there, which he ran for sixteen years.

Tony Curtis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001, and in 2004 he was awarded the first Doctor of Literature by the University of Glamorgan. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales (Glamorgan).In 2014, Dylan Thomas"s centenary year, he toured a talk based on his memoir "My Life with Dylan Thomas".

In September 2015 he visits the United States of America with that talk and other poetry readings. From May 2015 he will act as visiting poet at Dyffryn House and Gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan.

In that month he curated the first exhibition of Ceri Richards Dylan Thomas-inspired paintings at the Boathouse in Laugharne.

In 2016 Seren Books will publish his From the Fortunate Isles: Selected Poems 1966-2016 In 2017 Cinnamon Press will publish his selected Stories: Throwing the Punch. Tony Curtis lives in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan and in Lydstep in Pembrokeshire.

Achievements

He was given a Gregory Award in 1972, won the National Poetry Competition in 1984 and was given the Dylan Thomas Award in 1993. In 1997 he received a Cholmondeley Award.