The Writers of Wales Database

SHORT, STEVE

Flat 1, 18 Hawthorne Avenue, Uplands, Swansea SA2 0LF
Tel: (01792) 205794

Poet and translator. Born in Manchester, Steve was brought up in Malaysia and then Hong Kong. After University, he moved to Swansea in 1971 and has lived there ever since. Now retired, he has published several volumes of poems. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines, both in Wales including in Planet and Poetry Wales, and also beyond such as in the USA. His latest collection The Green Grounds (Hafan Books, 2009) features poems which freely use ballad form to explore classic Welsh legends; in particular the rumour of a sunken island off Mumbles Head (‘The Green Grounds’), the myth of the unicorn, and the message of medieval Flemish religious art. The Afterword is written by Professor M Wynn Thomas, who along with Tony Conran, has long championed Steve’s work.

Selected Publications:
Malaya (Alun Books, 1994)
The Gododdin (Llanerch, 1994)
Homo Sylvestris (Salzburg, 1997)
The Green Grounds (Hafan Books, 2009)

Contributed to:
The Green Grounds and Other Ballads (co-writer) (Hafan Books, 2008)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Read and discuss own work
2. Read and discuss own translation of Y Gododdin’

AGE RANGE: Adult