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** Time Being, new collection forthcoming from Seren: Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 1st qtr 2009 **
Ruth Bidgood: After grammar school in Port Talbot, South Wales, and taking her degree in English from St Hugh's College, Oxford, Ruth served in the WRNS as a coder, mainly in Alexandria. In post-war London she worked for a time on a new edition of Chambers' Encyclopaedia, then moved with her husband to Coulsdon, Surrey. They had two sons and a daughter. During this time, they bought a bungalow in Abergwesyn, Powys, which eventually became Ruth's home, and where she started to write poems and undertook research on local history. Of her poetry collections (listed below), the second received a Welsh Arts Council award in 1976, two were short-listed for Welsh Book of the Year (1993 and 1997), and one for the Roland Mathias Prize in 2005. A prose book, Parishes of the Buzzard (a history of the Abergwesyn area) was published by Goldleaf, Port Talbot in 2000. Historical articles have appeared in county journals. Publications: Time
Being, Seren, 2009 — a PBS Recommendation Symbols
of Plenty (a selection of longer poems), Canterbury Press, 2006
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