Susan Wicks

British poet and novelist

Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet and novelist.^[1]

She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent.^[2] She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.^[3]

Awards

Singing Underwater won the 1992 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. The Clever Daughter was shortlisted for both the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, and 1996 Forward Poetry Prize. Her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's Pas Revoir (Cold Spring in Winter) won the 2010 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and it was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.^[4] She won the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's Talking Vrouz.^[5]

Works

Poetry

Singing Underwater, Faber and Faber, 1992 ISBN 978-0-571-16724-1
Open diagnosis , Faber and Faber, 1994, ISBN 978-0-571-17139-2
The Clever Daughter, Faber and Faber, 1996, ISBN 978-0-571-17926-8
Night Toad: New & Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85224-636-5
De-iced, Bloodaxe Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85224-755-3
House of Tongues, Bloodaxe Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85224-906-9
The Months, Bloodaxe Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78037-290-7

Poetry translations

Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter, Arc, 2009, ISBN 978-1-904614-30-2
Valérie Rouzeau, Talking Vrouz, Arc, 2013, ISBN 978-1-908376-16-9
Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry (translated Michèle Métail), 2015. Enitharmon Press

Memoir

Driving My Father, Faber and Faber, 1995, ISBN 978-0-465-01699-0

Novels

The Key, Faber and Faber, 1997, ISBN 978-0-571-17919-0
Little Thing. Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 978-0-571-19344-8

Short stories

Roll Up for the Arabian Derby, bluechrome, 2008, ISBN 978-1-906061-39-5

References

^ British Council (18 August 2014). "Susan Wicks | British Council Literature". Contemporarywriters.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "Arc Publications - Susan Wicks". Archived from the original on 16 April 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
^ "Author Page > Susan Wicks". Bloodaxe Books. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "Blog". Arc Publications. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "The winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2014 is Susan Wicks for..." Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

External links

"The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire: Susan Wicks". The National Post. 31 May 2010. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013.
Kate Clanchy (13 January 2007). "Flying clean". The Guardian.
Diane Becker. "Roll Up for the Arabian Derby review". The Short Review.
"Poet Valérie Rouzeau and translator Susan Wicks read from Cold Spring in Winter" on YouTube