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Ysgol Diwylliant a Chyfathrebu - School of Culture & Communication
SpeakerEllie Rees
Dr Alan Bilton
After retiring as a teacher in 2009, Ellie realised that there was more to life than gardening and so decided to become a student once more. She gained an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University, and her work is now widely published. She writes memoir, creative-non-fiction and essays but her main love is poetry. Ellie’s poems have been published in such places as The New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, The Lonely Crowd, Black Bough Poems, The Cabinet of Heed, Trestle Ties and The Broken Spine. She has been shortlisted in several prestigious competitions and in 2020 won the Selected or Neglected Competition run by The Hedgehog Press. Ellie’s first poetry collection titled Ticking was published on January 14th 2022 by The Hedgehog Press.
From: 5 Apr 2022, 1 p.m.To: 5 Apr 2022, 2 p.m.
Location: Taliesin Create, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ, Swansea
As part of the Literary Salon Series, Ellie Rees will be in conversation with Dr Alan Bilton, author and Senior Lecturer of English Literature and Creative Writing at Swansea University.
The poems in Ticking deep map a beautiful but apparently empty strip of the South Wales coastline that looks across the Bristol Channel to Exmoor. The collection could be classified as nature writing, though the term, deep mapping is a more accurate description of the eclectic subject matter: there are ghosts, suicides, and ruins as well as dung spiders, stone masons and insect apprehension. Many of the poems focus on the history and geography, archaeology and wild life of a two-mile stretch of the Welsh coastline. However, the mapping in Ticking is not only confined to the tangible or material, it includes the intangible, the dreams and hopes, imaginations and fears of its residents both in the past and the present.
(Email: cultural-institute@swansea.ac.uk)
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