John Powell Ward
John Powell Ward (born 1937) is an English poet and academic. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University.[1]
John Powell Ward was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk.[2] He studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge before embarking on an academic career in Swansea. Between 1977 and 1984, he was a regular presenter of the BBC radio programme Poetry Now, and from 1975 to 1980 he edited Poetry Wales.[3] In 2012, an exhibition of his "Poetry or Type" concrete and experimental poetry was on view at the Hay-on-Wye Poetry Jamboree.[4][5]
He is the father of the actor Tom Ward.
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- The Other Man (Christopher Davies, 1969)
- To Get Clear (Poetry Wales Press, 1981)
- The Clearing (Poetry Wales Press, 1984)
- A Certain Marvellous Thing (Seren, 1993)
- Genesis (Seren, 1997)
- Late Thoughts in March (Seren, 1999)
- Selected and New Poems (Seren, 2004)
- The Last Green Year (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
- Instead Of Goodbye (Cinnamon Press, 2017)
- Religious Poems, Maybe (Cinnamon Press 2020)
Criticism
[edit]- Social Reality for the Adolescent Girl (University of Wales, Swansea 1976)
- Poetry and the Sociological Idea (Harvester Press, 1981)
- Wordsworth's Language of Men (Harvester Press, 1984)
- Raymond Williams (University of Wales Press, 1984)
- The English Line (Macmillan, 1991)
- As You Like It (Harvester: Shakespeare New Readings, 1992)
- Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Open University Guides, 1993)
- The Poetry of R. S. Thomas (Seren Books: Poetry Wales Press, 1987)
- The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry (Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press USA, 2004)
Awards
[edit]- Poetry and the Sociological Idea, Welsh Arts Council Award for literary criticism, 1981
- The Clearing, Welsh Arts Council Award for poetry, 1984
- The Spell of the Song, Outstanding Academic Title Citation, American Libraries Association, 2004
References
[edit]- ^ Swansea University - Mr John Powell Ward, Honorary Research Fellow. Accessed 23 November 2013
- ^ Literature Wales - Writers of Wales Database Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 23 November 2013
- ^ "Poetry Wales - About". Poetry Wales. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
- ^ Fiona Owen: Interview with John Powell Ward. Accessed 23 November 2013
- ^ Hay Poetry Jamboree 2013
Further reading
[edit]- Fiona Owen - "Language of Light: The Poetry of John Powell Ward", Welsh Writing in English, Volume 7, 2001–2.
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