Ian Gregson (poet)

Ian Gregson
Gregson in 2015
Born 1953
Manchester, England
Occupation Poet
Language English
Nationality English
Alma mater
Period 1981–
Notable awards
Website
www.iangregson.co.uk

Ian Gregson (born 1953) is an English poet and writer. His debut poetry collection Call Centre Love Song was shortlisted for a Forward Prize in 2006. In 2015, he was put forward for the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, receiving 54 nominations from graduates.

Biography

Born in Manchester in 1953, Ian Gregson was educated at Oxford University and completed a PhD at the University of Hull. In 1981, he was given an Eric Gregory Award by the Society of Authors. His debut poetry collection Call Centre Love Song was published by Salt in 2006, and was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for 'Best First Collection'.[1]

Gregson has lived most of his adult life in north Wales, where he was Professor of English literature and creative writing at Bangor University[2] until taking early retirement in 2015.[3] He has published a number of critical books, largely concerned with contemporary poetry, postmodernism and representations of masculinity. His second poetry collection, How We Met, was published by Salt in 2008. The poem 'Squawks and Speech' from How We Met was chosen as The Guardian's Poem of the Week in July 2014.[4] Gregson has also written two novels, Not Tonight Neil (2011) and The Crocodile Princess (2015), both published by Cinnamon Press.

In 2015, Gregson was nominated by 54 Oxford University graduates for the position of Professor of Poetry.[5] Gregson eventually lost out to Simon Armitage, who was appointed to the role in June 2015.[6] Coincidentally, Gregson had previously written a book-length introduction to Armitage for those studying him at school and university, built around detailed and accessible readings of his most important poems.[7]

Ian's 16 English poems have been translated into Chinese by Peter Jingcheng Xu who is also a poet, translator and scholar, completing his PhD at the School of English Literature, Bangor University in 2018. The poems and the Chinese translations together with the translator's Chinese review titled 'Ian Gregson: A Contemporary British Postmodernist Eco-Poet of Dramatic Monologue' are published by installment in the key journal The World of English from May to September, 2018.[8]

Publications

Fiction

  • 2011: Not Tonight Neil, Cinnamon Press
  • 2015: The Crocodile Princess, Cinnamon Press

Poetry

  • 2006: Call Centre Love Song, Salt
  • 2008: How We Met, Salt

Criticism

  • 1996: Contemporary Poetry And Postmodernism: Dialogue And Estrangement, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 1999: The Male Image: Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2004: Postmodern Literature, Bloomsbury
  • 2005: Muriel Spark's Caricatural Effects, Oxford University Press
  • 2006: Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction, Continuum
  • 2007: The New Poetry in Wales, University of Wales Press
  • 2011: Simon Armitage (Salt Studies in Contemporary Poetry), Salt

As editor

  • 2010: Old City, New Rumours (ed. with Carol Rumens), Five Leaves

References

  1. ↑ "Forward Alumni". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Interview: Ian Gregson". Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Cinnamon Press Authors: Ian Gregson". Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Poem of the week: Squawks and Speech by Ian Gregson". The Guardian. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Wole Soyinka leads candidates for Oxford professor of poetry". The Guardian. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Oxford 'dull old farts' choose Simon Armitage as new Professor of Poetry". The Telegraph. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Simon Armitage". Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  8. ↑ http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_542976210102xers.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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