Deryn Rees-Jones
{{Short description|Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1968)}}
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Deryn Rees-Jones (born 1968) is an Anglo-Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool.{{cite book |title=Contemporary British poetry and the city |last=Barry |first=Peter |page=155 |year=2000 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-5594-2 }} Although Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a Welsh writer.{{cite web| url = http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=12191| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091216200720/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=12191| archive-date = 2009-12-16| title = Deryn Rees-Jones - Poetry Archive}}
Rees-Jones did doctoral research on women poets at Birkbeck College, and is now a professor of Poetry at Liverpool University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/poetryandscience/diaries/jones/index.htm |title=Deryn Rees Jones - Centre for Poetry and Science - University of Liverpool |access-date=10 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818182912/http://www.liv.ac.uk/poetryandscience/diaries/jones/index.htm |archive-date=18 August 2009 |url-status=dead }} She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1993, and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award in 1996.
Works
She has published three poetry books with Seren, The Memory Tray (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Signs Round a Dead Body (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and Quiver: A Murder Mystery (2004).{{cite web| url = http://uk.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17982&x=1| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110727112101/http://uk.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17982&x=1| archive-date = 2011-07-27| title = Poetry International Web - Deryn Rees-Jones}} A pamphlet, Falls and Finds, appeared from Shoestring in 2008.{{cite web| url = http://happenstancepress.co.uk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191&Itemid=44| title = happenstancepress.co.uk}} She has also co-edited a book of essays, Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice (2001), with Alison Mark, and published a monograph, Carol Ann Duffy (2001) in Northcote House's Writers & Their Work series. Her critical study Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets was published by Bloodaxe in 2005 at the same time as its companion anthology Modern Women Poets. In 2012 and 2019, Rees-Jones was shortlisted for the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize for her 'Burying the Wren' and 'Erato'.
She is also the editor of Pavilion poetry press.
Awards and honors
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- 1993 Eric Gregory Award
- 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize, shortlist, Burying the Wren {{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/23/ts-eliot-prize-poetry-shortlist |title=TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist |work=The Guardian |author=Alison Flood |date=23 October 2012 |accessdate=23 October 2012}}
- 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize, shortlist, Erato
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Category:20th-century Welsh poets
Category:21st-century Welsh poets
Category:20th-century Welsh women writers
Category:21st-century Welsh women writers
Category:21st-century Welsh writers
Category:English people of Welsh descent
Category:Anglo-Welsh women poets
Category:Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London