The Writers of Wales Database

BIELSKI, ALISON

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Poet. Alison was born in Newport and educated at Newport High School. She is past Joint Secretary of English Language Section of Welsh Academy. Alison contributes widely to magazines, text–books and anthologies and has read poems on radio and appeared on television. She has won 13 poetry awards and poems have been chosen three times for inclusion in Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards anthologies in the USA. She has been published in many European countries and in India as well as the UK and USA. Poems from The Lovetree were set to music by Welsh composer Trevor Roberts and performed as Idyll at the 1975 Fishguard Festival.

Selected Publications:
Across the Burning Sand (J.D Lewis, 1970)
Flower Legends of Wales (A. Bielski, 1972)
Chwedlau’r Cymry am flodau (A. Bielski, 1973)
Zodiacpoems (Xenia, 1973)
Shapes and Colours (A. Bielski, 1973)
Eve (Aquila Publishing Company, 1973)
Flower Legends of the Wye Valley (A. Bielski, 1974)
Mermaid Poems (Xenia, 1974)
The Love Tree (Christopher Davies, 1974)
Discovering Islands (Xenia, 1979)
Mobiles (Writer’s Forum, 1979)
Tales and Traditions of Tenby (HG Walters, 1979)
Night Sequence (A. Bielski, 1980)
Eagles (Alun Books, 1983)
The Story of St Mellons (Alun Books, 1985)
That Crimson Flame (University of Salzburg Press, 1996)
The Green–eyed Pool (University of Salzburg Press, 1997)
Sacramental Sonnets (Alun Books, 2003)
One of Our Skylarks (Cinnamon, 2010)

Contributed to:
Story of the Welsh Dragon (with Claude Page) (H.G Waters, 1965)