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JAMES, LAURENCE
4 Heol Gwermont, Llansaint, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire SA17 5JA
Poet and translator. Born in Hanover, of Welsh and English parents. Educated at the Department of Architecture, Kingston School of Art (Polytechnic) and the University of Glamorgan (MA Creative Writing). EFL in Germany throughout the 1980s. Since his return to Wales in 1997, ESOL/EAP Language Support in Adult Education, University, Business and Secondary School. Since the 1980s, Laurence has had his poems published in various booklets and magazines including Oasis, Other Poetry, The North, Jewish Quarterly, The Yellow Crane, Banipal, The Ecologist, Fire, Babel (Germany), Cyphers (Dublin), The Rialto, Staple, Swansea Review, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales etc. Some of his works are collaborations with musicians and artists. December ’08 was the 50th in an unbroken run of monthly poetry readings and music Laurence has hosted at his village pub. Laurence is a Member of Academi.Photograph by Erika Nora Senfft-Ludin
Selected Publications:
On The Lake (Envoi, 1987)
That Much is Clear (Envoi, 1989)
Jazz at the Synagogue (Envoi, 1990)
Jack (Envoi, 1992)
’Trane at the Ship (jazz-related sequence; dry points by John Tatchell Freeman) (Making Waves, 1995)
I London, the poems (Falling Leaves, 1998)
No, Love, & Even If (Sixties Press, 2005)
Vulcanologists’ Workshop (selected and newer work) (Lapwing, 2007)
Deliquescence of Dust (forthcoming)
Trajectories (forthcoming)
Translations:
Song Abroad (versions of Gustav Mahler songs; drawings by Lisa Kucharski) (Making Waves, 1982)
Aja & Indumati (from the Sanskrit epic, via the German; monoprints by Nina Feldman) (Lapwing, 2005)
The Place I Die I Shall Not Belong (original by SAID, Iran/Germany) (Lapwing, 2006)
There Once Was a Flower… (verse version of a tale by SAID, Iran/Germany; illustrations Joy Dee) (Lapwing, 2010)
Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings of own work