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MAILLARD, PHIL
Email: cannapandv@tiscali.co.uk
3, Cardigan Road, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 4PN
Tel: (029) 2051 3569
Poet and prose writer. Born in 1948 in South London, Phil has been a resident of South Wales since 1975. For the last 20 years he has worked as a Speech and Language Therapist for the NHS, specialising in progressive neurological conditions. Apart from seven books (his first collection of poems was published in 1976), he has published poetry, fiction and criticism in numerous magazines and is a frequent reader of his own work. Phil is a Member of Academi.
Photograph by Val Collett
Selected Publications:
Keeping Still (Spanner, 1976)
North American Journal (Blackweir Press, 1976)
Grazing the Octave (Galloping Dog, 1977)
Quartz: A Winter Book (Galloping Dog, 1979)
Portraits (Galloping Dog, 1980)
Plot 20 and Other Stories (Galloping Dog, 1987)
Sweet Dust and Growling Lambs: Three Books (Shearsman, 2008)
Sweet Dust and Growling Lambs: Three Books (Shearsman, 2008)
None of the three collections in Sweet Dust & Growing Lambs has appeared in book form before. Together, these vivid, open-handed poems show Maillard’s breadth of approach and technique. They speak of specific narratives and landscapes, past and present, as in Cardiff or Spain. They tell individual stories, like the hill farmer leaving his farm or the Navvy driver encountering his own unexploded feelings. The poems also develop larger themes, such as the human centrality of myths and of language.
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