About Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis was born in 1946 in Carmarthen. He is a poet and a Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan and directs an MA in Creative Writing. 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. He has published eight collections of poetry; his collection The Arches has been published as a book and CD-ROM—it was the result of a collaboration with New York collage artist John Digby.He has edited studies of Seamus Heaney, anthologies of poetry and fiction, and the text How Poets Work. He has received two awards from the Society of Authors: the Eric Gregory Award and the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry; as well as—among others—the National Poetry Prize in 1984 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 1993.
Leaving the Hills, is his recent poetry collection, published by Seren Books in 2024.
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