The Writers of Wales Database

DAVIDSON, IAN

Ian Davidson was born in 1957 and brought up on Ynys Môn. He is bilingual (Welsh/English) and went to university at Essex 1976–1981. Ian has worked in a variety of jobs, mostly around construction etc. He spent the last ten years working in education and now teaches literature and creative writing on the part–time programme at University of Wales, Bangor. He completed his PhD in Aberystwyth on contemporary poetry in 2003 and is now a lecturer in English and Creative Writing there. Ian has published a number of critical works and poetry collections, and his work has also widely appeared in periodicals including Journal of American Studies, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Textual Practice, Mosaic and Performance Research.

Selected Publications:
Harsh (Spectacular Diseases, 2003)
Human Remains and Sudden Movements (West House, 2003)
At a Stretch (Shearsman Books, 2004)
No Way Back (West House, 2005)
As If Only (Shearsman, 2007)
Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Familiarity Breeds (Oystercatcher Press, 2008)
Radical Spaces of Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)
Into Thick Hair (Wild Honey Press, 2010)
Partly in Riga (Shearsman, 2010)

Contributed to:
The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood (contributor) (Salt, 2007)
Dark Wires (co-writer) (West House Books, 2007)
Necessary Steps (contributor) (Shearsman, 2008)
Poetry and Public Language (contributor) (Shearsman, 2008)