The Writers of Wales Database

HOUSTON, DOUGLAS

Email: douglashouston79@gmail.com

Poet. Douglas was born in Cardiff in 1947 and educated at the University of Hull, obtaining a PhD for work on Auden and Heaney. He was first published as one of the Hull Poets in the late 1970s. Douglas is a freelance writer, part–time university tutor and literary researcher. His poetry has been published in numerous significant anthologies, including Meic Stephens’ The Bright Field (Carcanet, 1991) and Dannie Abse’s Twentieth–Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (Seren, 1997).

Reviews:

"…Douglas Houston is an Auden-like artificer of great accomplishment…”
Peter Porter, Observer

Selected Publications:
With the Offal Eaters (Bloodaxe, 1986)
The Hunters in the Snow (Bloodaxe, 1994)
The Welsh Book of the Dead (Seren, 2000)
Beyond the Playing Field: Selected Poems (Shoestring Press, 2010)

Contributed to:
The Bright Field (contributor) (Carcanet, 1991)
Twentieth-Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (contributor) (Seren, 1997)
Good Fiction Guide (co-editor) (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Readings from and discussions of own poetry
2. Talks/lectures on numerous poets from Romantic era onward
3. Wokshops in creative writing and poetic technique

AGE RANGE: Late adolescent and adult