The Writers of Wales Database

HINSHELWOOD, EMILY

Pant Yr Ywen, Llwyncelyn Road, Tai’rgwaith, Rhydaman, SA18 1UU
Tel: (01269) 822230  
Website: http://www.emily-hinshelwood.co.uk/

Poet and playwright. Born in London, she has travelled across several continents and finally settled in South Wales where she started writing poetry. Winner of the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry (2003) and the Ken Bruford Award for Light Verse. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Roundyhouse, Red Poets Society and Cambrensis and she has done poetry readings in a range of venues in South Wales. Scriptwriter for the bilingual production Dylan Pwy? Dylan Who?, Emily also co-founded the writers group ‘Hooker’s Pen’. She is now a freelance writer, performer and workshop facilitator.

Selected Publications:
Sucking at Sticky Fingers (Roynetree Press, 2004)
On Becoming a Fish (Seren, 2012)

On Becoming a Fish (Seren, 2012)

Emily Hinshelwood’s new poetry collection, On Becoming a Fish was inspired by a series of walks around the 186 mile Pembrokeshire coastal path in West Wales, known for its spectacular views from cliffside paths skirting the Irish sea and the Bristol Channel. Deeply engaged with environmental issues through her work in community energy and climate change, the author is also a keen observer of human nature in the context of this beautiful coastline.

The author says: “This collection explores ‘what happens at the boundary’ – not just the topographical boundary of sea meeting land – but the concept of boundary in itself: political borders, social barriers, environmental limits, historical divisions; the boundary between fact and fiction, between you and I.”