Leaving the Hills

Tony Curtis is an established and acclaimed poet, novelist and critic. He has written and edited over forty books, most recently his debut novel ‘Darkness in the City of Light’, which was shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, and ‘Where the Birds Sing our Names’, an anthology of poems for the children’s charity Tŷ Hafan. He was Wales’s first Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan, where he developed and directed the M. Phil in Writing. He was awarded a Gregory Award in 1972; won the National Poetry Competition in 1983; and the Dylan Thomas Award for Spoken Poetry in 1993, judged by Dannie Abse and Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy. He had a Cholmondeley Award in 1998 and a D.Litt. in 2004. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.