The Writers of Wales Database

McGUINNESS, PATRICK

St Anne’s College, Oxford, OX2 6HS
Email: pramcg@yahoo.co.uk

Born in 1968 in Tunisia, Patrick was brought up in Belgium, Iran and England. In 1998 he won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry from the Society of Authors and in 2003, the Levinson prize from the American Poetry Foundation. His Stéphane Mallarmé, For Anatole’s Tomb (Carcanet/Routledge USA, 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

His radio programmes ’A Short History of Stupidity’ and ’The Art of Idleness’ have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books and his work has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines, including: Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, Poetry Review, Planet, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Agenda. He is Chair of the judges of the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. Patrick lives in Cardiff and Caernarfon and is a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he lectures in French. He was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize in 2005, his novel Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010) was on the 2011 Wales Book of the Year Long List and he won the 2011 Costa Book Award for his latest title, The Last Hundred Days. Patrick is a Fellow of The Welsh Academy.

Selected Publications:
Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Anthologie de la poésie symboliste et décadente (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2001)
T.E. Hulme: Selected Writings (Carcanet/Routledge USA, 1998; 2nd ed. 2003)
Stéphane Mallarmé, For Anatole’s Tomb (Carcanet/Routledge USA, 2003)
The Canals of Mars (Carcanet Press, 2004)
Canali di Marte [The Canals of Mars, translated into Italian] (Mobydick, 2006)
19th Century Blues (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2007)
Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010)
The Last Hundred Days (Seren, 2011)

Contributed to:
La Belgique Entre Deux Siecles: Laboratoire de La Modernite, 1880-1914 (Le Romanitisme Et Apres En France) (co-editor) (Peter Lang Publishing, 2007)
La Diva aux Longs Cils by Charles Dantzig (editor) (Grasset & Fasquelle, 2010)
Flaubert: Transportation, Progression, Progress (Le Romantisme Et Apres En France Romanticism and After in France) by Kate Rees & Alan Raitt (editor) (Peter Lang, 2010)

 

Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010)

Wit and paradox are at the heart of the poems in Jilted City, a collection full of acrid tenderness that finds unforseen connections between place and displacement.

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