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Biography
Winner
of Wales Arts Council's Book of the Year Award
Grahame
Davies is a Welsh poet, author and lyricist, who has won numerous prizes,
including the Wales Book of the Year Award.
He is the
author of 18 books in Welsh and English, including: The Chosen People,
a study of the relationship of the Welsh and Jewish peoples; The Dragon
and the Crescent, a study of Wales and Islam; a novel, Everything
Must Change, about the French philosopher Simone Weil, and two popular
works of psychogeography, Real Wrexham, and Real Cambridge
A native
of Coedpoeth near Wrexham, now based in Powys and London, he has a degree
in English from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and a PhD from Cardiff
University, where he was an honorary fellow in the department of religious
studies.
He was awarded
an honorary D.Litt from Anglia Ruskin University, and is the
Vice-President of Goodenough College, London. He travels internationally as
a reader and lecturer, carries out numerous high-profile poetry commissions,
and collaborates extensively with musical and visual artists. In 2020,
he was awarded the LVO (Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order) in the
Queen's Birthday Honours.
His poetry
has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications
such as: The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The
Guardian, Poetry London, the Literary Review in America,
Orbis (#136 Spring 2006), Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English,
Absinthe (Michigan, USA, 2007), Kalliope (Germany, 2009),
Poetry Review, and Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series Villanelles
(2012). His work is widely anthologised and is on the education syllabus
in Wales. __________________________________________________
News
Real Cambridge published
Psychogeography of changing city
Hymn commissioned by Royal Air Force
Premiere at Royal Albert Hall
Celebrating Wales-Ireland links
New folk song suite with Paul Mealor for Ar Log Books
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Real Cambridge (Seren, 2021) a volume of
psychogeography in the Real series, edited by Peter Finch.
- Alcemi
Dwr / Alchemy of Water (Gomer, 2013). With Tony Curtis, a bilingual
book of poems about Welsh lakes, rivers, shorelines and waterfalls,
with pictures by Mari Owen and Carl Ryan.
- Lightning
Beneath the Sea (Seren, 2012), first full-length book of poetry
in English.
- The
Dragon and the Crescent (Seren, 2011), an extensive study of the
relationship between the Welsh people and Islam as reflected in literature.
- Real
Wrexham (Seren, 2007), a work of psychogeography in the Real series
edited by Peter Finch. Reprinted 2009.
- Everything
Must Change (Seren, 2007), an English-language novel based on Rhaid
i Bopeth Newid.
- Gwyl
y Blaidd / Festival of the Wolf, Eds. Tom Cheesman, Grahame Davies
and Sylvie Hoffman (Parthian/Hafan, 2006). An anthology of work by and
about refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.
- Achos,
(Barddas, 2005), third volume of original Welsh-language poetry.
- The
Big Book of Cardiff, Eds. Peter Finch & Grahame Davies (Seren, 2005),
an anthology of contemporary writing about Cardiff.
- Rhaid
i Bopeth Newid, (Gomer, 2004), first novel, longlisted for the £10,000
Book of the Year prize, 2005.
- Nel
país de la borrina. (VTP Editorial, 2004) selection of Welsh poetry
in Asturian translation.
- No
país da brétema (VTP Editorial, 2004) selection of Welsh poetry
in Galician translation.
- Ffiniau/Borders,
(Gomer, 2002), a bilingual volume of poetry jointly with Elin ap Hywel.
- The
Chosen People, (Seren, 2002), a study of the relationship of the
Welsh and the Jewish people as reflected in literature.
- Cadwyni
Rhyddid, (Barddas, 2001), second volume of Welsh-language poetry,
winner of the Wales Arts Council's 2002 Book of the Year award at the
Hay on Wye Festival of Literature, together with a prize of £3,000.
Reprinted 2001.
- Oxygen,
(Seren, 2000). With Amy Wack a bilingual anthology of Welsh poets aged
under 45.
- Sefyll
yn y Bwlch, (University of Wales Press, 1999), a study of the anti-modern
movement in the 20th Century, as seen in the work of R.S.Thomas, Saunders
Lewis, T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil.
- Adennill
Tir, (Barddas, 1997), first Welsh-language poetry book, awarded
the Harri Webb Memorial Prize.
Major
Awards, Scholarships etc:
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2020: Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO), The Queen's
Birthday Honours
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2017:
Poem Suitable for Song prize. National Eisteddfod of Wales
- 2016:
Sonnet prize, National
Eisteddfod of Wales
- 2011:
Literature Wales Bursary for poetry project.
- 2010:
Honorary D.Litt. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
- 2009:
Ruth Howarth Literature Award for Real Wrexham
- 2008:
Honorary Research Fellowship, Cardiff University.
- 2007:
Academi Bursary Award for Wales and the Muslims.
- 2004:
Academi Bursary Award for Everything Must Change
- 2004:
Fellowship of Goodenough College, London.
- 2004:
Poem of tribute, National Eisteddfod of Wales.
- 2004:
Longlist for Book of the Year award for Rhaid i Bopeth Newid
- 2002:
Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Award for Cadwyni Rhyddid.
- 2001:
Winner, Stomp Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Dinbych, Yr Academi.
- 1998:
Welsh Arts Council Writer's Bursary Award for Wales and the Jews.
- 1997:
Harri Webb Memorial Poetry Prize for Adennill Tir.
- 1994:
Vers Libre Prize at National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Major
Commissions, Residencies, Visits, Festivals, Lectures.
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