Forward Prizes for Poetry
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Edition 7 (1998) Winner
Sheenagh Pugh
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Sheenagh Pugh
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1950-12-20 （Birmingham）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Birmingham, England → Cardiff, Wales → Shetland
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Novelist, Translator, Creative writing educator
- Active Years
- 1977-2024
- Affiliations
- University of Glamorgan
- Nominations
- Whitbread Prize shortlist (The Beautiful Lie), T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist (The Movement of Bodies), Roland Mathias Prize shortlist (Long-Haul Travellers)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Bristol | — | Department of Languages | — | — | United Kingdom |
University of Bristol
Department of Languages
Country:
United Kingdom
Studied languages.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Wales Book of the Year | Stonelight | — | Wales Arts Council | winner |
Wales Book of the Year
2000
Work:
Stonelight
Organization:
Wales Arts Council
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Stonelight
1999 PoetryPoetry collection that won the Wales Book of the Year award.
Northern landscapes
The Beautiful Lie
2002 PoetryPoetry collection shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.
Fan fiction
Kirstie's Witnesses
1998 NovelNovel set in Shetland.
Shetland
Bibliography
- Crowded by Shadows
- What a Place to Grow Flowers
- Earth Studies and Other Voyages
- Beware Falling Tortoises
- Sing for the Taxman
- Id's Hospit
- Stonelight
- The Beautiful Lie
- The Movement of Bodies
- Long-Haul Travellers
- Later Selected Poems
- Short Days, Long Shadows
- Afternoons Go Nowhere
- Selected Poems
- What If This Road and Other Poems
- Kirstie's Witnesses
- Folk Music
- Prisoners of Transience
- The Democratic Genre
Translations by Author
- Prisoners of Transience (1985)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Strong interest in northern landscapesLiterary analysis of fan fiction
- Recurring Motifs
- ShetlandNorwayPirates
Legacy
Prominent British contemporary poet, winner of Wales Book of the Year. Known for works featuring northern landscapes. Pioneering study on fan fiction as literature.
In Popular Culture
- Poem 'Sometimes' featured in Poems on the Underground and became well-known.
Quotes
-
Sometimes / people leave / and yet / we go on.
Source: Selected Poems (1990) (1990)
Trivia
- Got tired of her famous poem 'Sometimes' and no longer allows it in anthologies or exams.
- One of the first to treat fan fiction as a literary rather than sociological phenomenon.
- Won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition twice.