Paul Henry (poet)
Paul Henry (b. Aberystwyth, 1959) is a Welsh poet, singer-songwriter and broadcaster.
Biography
Starting out as a singer-songwriter, Henry's first collection Time Pieces was published by Seren Press in 1991, winning a Gregory Award. In 1992, he attended Joseph Brodsky's poetry masterclass at the Hay Festival, since which time a further eight books have appeared. His poems have been widely anthologised and can be found in journals such as Poetry Review and The Times Literary Supplement. They have also featured on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please.
The Brittle Sea, New & Selected Poems was recently reprinted by Seren in the UK and by Dronequill in India, under the title The Black Guitar. Mari d’Ingrid, Gerard Augustin's translation of his fifth collection, Ingrid’s Husband, is published by L’Harmattan. He was described by the late U. A. Fanthorpe as "a poet's poet who combines a sense of the music of words with an endlessly inventive imagination".
Henry teaches creative writing at writers' centres and has lectured at the University of South Wales. He has read and performed his songs at venues across Europe, the USA and India. His co-readers have included Paul Muldoon, Carol Ann Duffy, Don Paterson and Vikram Seth. Henry is a featured poet in the UK pages of Poetry International and in the British Council authors' pages. More recently, he has written and presented arts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.
Works
Poetry:
- 2011: The Black Guitar - Selected Poems, Dronequill (India)
- 2010: The Brittle Sea: New & Selected Poems, Seren
- 2008: Mari d'Ingrid, L'Harmattan (tr. Gerard Augustin)
- 2007: Ingrid’s Husband, Seren
- 2004: The Breath of Sleeping Boys & other poems, Carreg Gwalch
- 2002: The Slipped Leash, Seren
- 1998: The Milk Thief, Seren
- 1996: Captive Audience, Seren
- 1991: Time Pieces, Seren