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5 Jan17

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Bloodaxe Books
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and in the shop…
joint collection, poetry & art –
“Lace”,
Stonewood Press;
 
collections –
“House of Tongues”,
“De-iced”
and
“Night Toad: New & Selected Poems”,
Bloodaxe;
 
“The Clever Daughter”,
“Open Diagnosis”
and
“Singing Underwater”,
Faber;
 
stories collection –
“Roll Up for the Arabian Derby”,
bluechrome;
 
novels –
“A Place to Stop”;
Salt;
“Little Thing”
and
“The Key”,
Faber;
 
memoir –
“Driving My Father”
Faber and Basic Books, New York
 
as translator –
“Cold Spring in Winter”
and
“Talking Vrouz”,
(both Valérie Rouzeau),
Arc

 

 

Susan Wicks grew up in Kent, and studied French and Swedish language and literature at the Universities of Hull and Sussex. She has two adult daughters and lives with her husband in West Kent.
 
She is the author of seven collections of poetry, three novels (one of which, The Key, was serialised on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour), a short memoir, Driving My Father (Faber, 1995 and Basic Books, 1996) and a collection of stories, Roll Up for the Arabian Derby (bluechrome, 2009). A novel-in-stories, A Place to Stop, came out from Salt in 2012. Her first collection, Singing Underwater (Faber, 1992) won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize, as well as being a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her second, Open Diagnosis (Faber, 1994) was one of the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation Poets’ titles. Her third, The Clever Daughter (Faber, 1997), was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for both T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Her most recent, The Months (Bloodaxe, 2016), is also a PBS Recommendation.
 
She has read her work a number of times on national radio and television, on the South Bank and in the National Theatre, and at many literary festivals in Britain and abroad. She has been awarded writing fellowships in Europe and the United States, including Cove Park in Scotland, the Villa Mont Noir in Northern France, the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden, and the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the US.
 
She has translated two books of poems by the French poet, Valérie Rouzeau. Cold Spring in Winter (Pas Revoir) (Arc, 2009) won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize and was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and Canada’s international Griffin Prize for Poetry. Talking Vrouz (Arc, 2013) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize.
 
She is a freelance writer and teacher.