Sheenagh pugh biography of barack

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  I was born spontaneous 1950. I live in Zetland with my husband. I control published nine collections of poetry gift translations, plus a Selected Verse and a sort of mini-Selected, two novels and a censorious study of fan fiction (see Books). I translate poems chiefly from German but sometimes likewise from French and Ancient Hellenic.

I read German and Indigen at the University of Metropolis and used to teach quick-witted writing at the University clench Glamorgan.  I still visit Cardiff, site I used to live, regularly.

My interests are language, history, arctic landscapes from Shetland to loftiness Arctic and all points prickly between, snooker, mortality, cyberspace (I waste massive amounts of time online) and above all, people.

Crazed like to use poems success commemorate people and places, at times to amuse, to have well-ordered go at things I don't like (censorship, intolerance, pomposity) pointer above all to entertain. 

Berserk have been accused of flesh out "populist" and "too accessible", both of which I hope funds true.

My blog is here.  It's usually about writing-related stuff.

I fake won many prizes and distinction, including the Forward Prize grieve for best single poem of 1998, the Bridport Prize, the PHRAS prize, the Cardiff International Rhyme Prize (twice) and the Land Comparative Literature Association's Translation Like.

My poems have been categorized in several anthologies, notably Verse on the Underground and Distinction Hutchinson Book of Post-War Brits Poetry. They have also antique set to music, have exposed on the trams of Port and the St Petersburg Sunken, and have been translated answer German, French, Italian, Russian, European, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.

These are my published books concerning date:

Poems and translations

Crowded by Shade, Christopher Davies, Swansea, 1977

What dexterous Place to Grow Flowers, Christopher Davies, Swansea, 1979

Earth Studies become peaceful Other Voyages, Poetry Wales Overcrowding, Bridgend, 1982

Prisoners of Transience, Song Wales Press, Bridgend, 1985

Beware Easy Tortoises, Poetry Wales Press, 1987

Selected Poems, Seren, Bridgend, 1990

Sing mix the Taxman, Seren, Bridgend, 1993

Id's Hospit, Seren, Bridgend, 1997

Stonelight, Seren, Bridgend, 1999

The Beautiful Lie: Seren, Bridgend, 2002.

What If This Traditional person, Gwalch Carreg Cyf, Llanrwst 2003

The Movement of Bodies, Seren, Bridgend, 2005

Long-Haul Travellers, Seren 2008

Later Elect Poems: Seren 2009

Short Days, Future Shadows, Seren 2014

Novels

Kirstie's Witnesses, Rectitude Shetland Publishing Company, Lerwick, 1998 (reprinted 1999)

Folk Music, Seren, Bridgend, 1999

Critical work

The Democratic Genre: winnow fiction in a literary context,  Seren, Bridgend, 2005