Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Leaving the Hills
Leaving the Hills
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o gerddi amrywiol gan fardd arbennig yn llawn o straeon a phortreadau o bobman, o fynyddoedd Cymru hyd fryniau Hollywood, sy'n cynnig telynegion ynghyd â monologau hir, dramatig wrth archwilio hanesion am gymeriadau megis Roger Bannister, Muhammad Ali, Billie Holiday a Claude Debussy.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Tony Curtis's Leaving the Hills is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at his best. From the Welsh mountains to the Hollywood Hills, these poems offer lyrics, longer dramatic monologues and they explore personalities as various as Roger Bannister, Muhammad Ali, Billie Holiday, and Claude Debussy.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781727423
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781727423
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Leaving the Hills
- Awdur / Author
- Curtis, Tony
- Current Price ex VAT
- £10.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £10.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2024-04-15
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 88 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm; depth 12 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in 1946 and grew up there and in Pembrokeshire, where his grandmother’s family had lived for hundreds of years. He read English at Swansea University, did an MFA in Goddard College, Vermont and spent forty years in education, from 1969 to 2009, as a school teacher then a college lecturer and as Wales’s first Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan, where he developed and directed the M. Phil in Writing. He has written and edited over forty books, most recently his first novel Darkness in the City of Light and an anthology of poems for the Ty Hafan children’s charity – Where the Birds Sing our Names. He was awarded a Gregory Award in 1972; he won the National Poetry Competition in 1983. In 1993, he won the Dylan Thomas Award for Spoken Poetry, judged by Dannie Abse and Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy. He had a Cholmondeley Award in 1998. He was awarded a D.Litt. in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A full bibliography and biography may be found at www.tonycurtispoet.com
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