Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones (born 1968)[1] is an Anglo-Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool.[2] Although Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a Welsh writer.[1]

Rees-Jones did doctoral research on women poets at Birkbeck College, and is now a professor of Poetry at Liverpool University.[3] She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1993, and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award in 1996.

Works

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She has published three poetry books with Seren, The Memory Tray (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Signs Round a Dead Body (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and Quiver: A Murder Mystery (2004).[4] A pamphlet, Falls and Finds, appeared from Shoestring in 2008.[5] She has also co-edited a book of essays, Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice (2001), with Alison Mark, and published a monograph, Carol Ann Duffy (2001) in Northcote House's Writers & Their Work series. Her critical study Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets was published by Bloodaxe in 2005 at the same time as its companion anthology Modern Women Poets. In 2012 and 2019, Rees-Jones was shortlisted for the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize for her 'Burying the Wren' and 'Erato'.

She is also the editor of Pavilion poetry press.

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Deryn Rees-Jones - Poetry Archive". Archived from the original on 16 December 2009.
  2. ^ Barry, Peter (2000). Contemporary British poetry and the city. Manchester University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7190-5594-2.
  3. ^ "Deryn Rees Jones - Centre for Poetry and Science - University of Liverpool". Archived from the original on 18 August 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  4. ^ "Poetry International Web - Deryn Rees-Jones". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011.
  5. ^ "happenstancepress.co.uk".
  6. ^ Alison Flood (23 October 2012). "TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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