The Writers of Wales Database

DRYSDALE, ANN

8 Mount Pleasant, Blaina, NP13 3DD
Tel: 01495 292414
Email: annie@brynhyfryd.freeserve.co.uk
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Born in Cheshire, Ann grew up in London. She recieved a Grammar School education and then studied at York University. Ann has worked as a parent, journalist, poet and hill farmer on the North York Moors. She has been a popular columnist for Yorkshire Post Newspapers and has written four volumes of memoirs. Ann’s first poetry collection was shortlisted at Aldeburgh in 1995. She has a MA in Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing (Cardiff) and was winner of the Dylan Thomas Award for poetry in performance. Her work has appeared in many anthologies, including Thoughts Like an Ocean (Pont) and Twentieth–Century Anglo Welsh Poetry (Seren). Ann’s compassionate, exquisitely written and often humorous account of her partner’s stay in hospital after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Three-three, two-two, five-six (Cinnamon Press, 2007) combines prose and poetry with Philip’s own sketches to produce an ingenious and moving book. Ann is a member of the Academi Members' Committee.

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Selected Publications:
Prose
Faint Heart Never Kissed a Pig (Routledge, 1982)
Sows’ Ears and Silk Purses (Routledge, 1984)
Pearls Before Swine (Routledge, 1985)
A Pig in a Passage (Robert Hale, 1997)
Real Newport (Seren, 2006)
Discussing Wittgenstein (Cinnamon, 2009)

Poetry
The Turn of the Cucumber: Poems by Ann Drysdale (Peterloo Poets, 1995)
Gay Science (Peterloo Poets, 1999)
Backwork (Peterloo Poets, 2002)
Between Dryden and Duffy: Another Collection (Peterloo Poets, 2005)
Three-three, Two-two, Five-six (Cinnamon, 2007)
Quaintness and Other Offences (Cinnamon, 2009)