Rhys Trimble

{{Short description|British poet (born 1977)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox writer

| image =Rhys Trimble, Wales Poetry Festival, 2012.jpg

| name = Rhys Trimble

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1977|09|09}}

| birth_place = Livingstone, Zambia

| occupation = Poet

| language = Welsh, English

| nationality = Welsh

| education = {{plainlist|

• BA, Bangor University (2010)
• PhD, Northumbria University

}}

| genre = poetry

| awards = cinnamon press award

| years_active = 2008-present

| website = {{URL|www.rhystrimble.com}}

}}

Rhys Trimble (born in 1977) is a bilingual poet, teacher, visual poet, visual artist, musician and improvisational performance artist{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Hazel |date=2016 |title=The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ny4FDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT124 |publisher=Routledge |pages=98– |isbn=978-1-317-52902-6}} based in Wales. Trimble was born in Livingstone, Zambia in 1977, and was raised in Pontypool and latterly the head of the Neath Valley - Pontneddfechan. Trimble completed his first degree in biochemistry in the University of Sussex in 1999. Trimble is considered an important part of Welsh avant garde.{{cite journal|last1=Goodby|first1=John|title=Prof|journal=Angel Exhaust|date=2010|volume=21}} He completed a BA in literature and creative writing from Bangor University in 2010, and published his first book of poetry, Keinc, the same year.{{cite news |title=Pass Masters: Students' delight as they pick up degrees |newspaper=Daily Post}} He lives in Bethesda, graduated with a BA in Literature and Creative Writing and has recently published his second novel Drone (Crater Press). Previous books include Keinc, Skine, The Red Book of Hergest Ward and kør (2023). He received a PhD from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. His doctoral thesis was titled "Tywysogion".{{cite web |url=https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/humanities/research/english-research/creative-writing/postgraduate-research-in-creative-writing/ |title=Postgraduate Research Creative Writing |website=University of Northumbria at Newcastle}}{{cite magazine |last=Fowler |first=SJ |date=27 May 2015 |title=Maintenant #99 - Rhys Trimble |url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-99-rhys-trimble |magazine=3:AM Magazine}} He has authored more than 20 books of poetry in Wales, England, India and the US since 2010, including Swansea Automatic, Anatomy Mnemonics for Caged Waves (US) and Hexerisk.{{cite web |url=http://glasfrynproject.org.uk/w/3563/swansea-automatic |title=Swansea Automatic |date=12 May 2015 |website=Glasfryn Project}}{{cite web |url=http://www.shearsman.com/ws-blog/post/1012-rhys-trimble---hexerisk |title=Rhys Trimble – Hexerisk |last=Nelson |first=Camilla |type=Review |website=Shearsman Books}} He is the vocalist with the Punk/Improv/Noise group Lolfa Binc.{{cite web|last1=Coxon|first1=Steve|title=GIG REVIEW – Lolfa Binc, Teeth Crack, Spam Javelin @ The North, Rhyl|url=http://link2wales.co.uk/2017/crudblog/gig-review-lolfa-binc-teeth-crack-spam-javelin-the-north-rhyl/|website=Link2Wales}} And Anxiolytics. Trimble has contributed works to public art in Denbigh, Conwy Valley and Blackpool, Trimble was Nominated for the TS Eliot prize 2016.

He edits the experimental poetry e-zine ctrl+alt-del.{{cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/the-insider-peter-finch-1852073|last=Finch |first=Peter |title=the insider:peter finch|date=Feb 12, 2011 |website=Wales Online}} since 2008. His work has been translated into Slovak{{cite web|url=http://kloaka.membrana.sk/2017/05/kloaka-1-2017/|title=kloaka 1/2017|date=25 May 2017}} Latvian{{cite journal|last1=Davies|first1=Nia|title=Latvian Poetry|journal=Poetry Wales|volume=53|issue=2}} Anthologized in English{{cite book|last1=Parker|first1=R.T.A|title=Leg Avant|publisher=Crater|isbn=9781326469221|date=2016-03-10}} and Spanish{{cite web|url=http://circulodepoesia.com/2017/09/poesia-de-gales-rhys-trimble/|title=Círculo de Poesía - Poesía de Gales: Rhys Trimble|website=circulodepoesia.com|date=2017-09-11}}{{cite book|last1=Hedeen, Katherine, M., Núñez, Victor Rodrígues|title=Nuestra Tierra de Nadie|date=2015|publisher=Temblor de cielo|isbn=978-607-8167-47-0|url=http://www.laotrarevista.com/2016/06/nuestra-tierra-de-nadie/}} Galicean, Croatian, Romanian and Turkish. As an academic he has published articles in poetry Wales and had critical essays written on his work by Keely Laufer{{cite journal|last1=Laufer|first1=Keely Celia|title=The language of teeth: the tooth as a physical embodiment of identity in literature|journal=New Writing the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing|date=18 January 2016|volume= 13, 2016|issue=1|pages=50–58|doi=10.1080/14790726.2015.1133653|s2cid=147303426 }} and Dr Daniel Williams.{{cite book|last1=Jarvis|first1=Matthew|title=Devolutionary Voices|date=30 October 2017|publisher=Peter Lang|location=Bern|isbn=9783034319751}} Trimble has performed in a number of countries around the world, and has taken part in the Gelynion Wales tour{{cite web|url=http://www.theenemiesproject.com/gelynion/|title=Gelynion: Wales|website=The Enemies Project}} and the India-Wales international writing project.{{cite web |url=https://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/profiles/rhys-trimble/ |title=Rhys Trimble |website=Literature Across Frontiers}} He is the founder of Awen 33 Arts, Bangor North Wales, Previous visiting poet at Bangor university and is currently a Bard in the Public Mapping Platform Project.