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Practical Dreams
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Published January 1, 1983
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Nigel Jenkins
36 books4 followersNigel Jenkins (1949-2014) was an Anglo-Welsh poet from South Wales. He was also known as a playwright, writer of prose (especially of psychogeography), and an editor. He passed away in 2014 of cancer.
He was brought up in the Gower. During his life, Jenkins was a journalist in the English Midlands before then travelling extensively. He studied film and literature at Essex University and was a winner of the Arts Council’s Young Poets Prize in 1974.
He returned to Wales and was a lecturer at Swansea University and director of the creative writing programme there.
In 2002, Jenkins published the first ever haiku collection from a Welsh publisher.
In 2008, he co-edited (with historian John Davies), The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (published by the University of Wales Press).
Notable works:
-Gwalia in Khasia (1995)
-Blue: 101 Haiku, Senryu and Tanka (2002)
-The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (co-ed., 2008)
He was brought up in the Gower. During his life, Jenkins was a journalist in the English Midlands before then travelling extensively. He studied film and literature at Essex University and was a winner of the Arts Council’s Young Poets Prize in 1974.
He returned to Wales and was a lecturer at Swansea University and director of the creative writing programme there.
In 2002, Jenkins published the first ever haiku collection from a Welsh publisher.
In 2008, he co-edited (with historian John Davies), The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (published by the University of Wales Press).
Notable works:
-Gwalia in Khasia (1995)
-Blue: 101 Haiku, Senryu and Tanka (2002)
-The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (co-ed., 2008)
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