John Goodby
John Goodby was born in Birmingham in 1958; and is an English Lecturer at Swansea University. His research is into Irish poetry after Yeats, Dylan Thomas, and modern poetry generally.
As well as critical books on Irish poetry and Dylan Thomas, he has published two books of poetry, A Birmingham Yank (Arc, 1998), and uncaged sea (Waterloo, 2008). John has also translated Heinrich Heine’s Germany: A Winter’s Tale (Smokestack, 2005), and, with Tom Cheesman, the poetry of the contemporary Algerian poet Soleiman Adel Guemar, State of Emergency (Arc, 2007). With the Cuban-Irish-American poet Carlota Caulfield he published No Soy Tu Musa / I’m Not Your Muse (Torremozas, 2008), the first translation of Irish women’s poetry into Spanish.
His poems have appeared in The Independent, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Honest Ulsterman, Angel Exhaust, Poetry Ireland Review, and were anthologised in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber and Faber, 1993). In 2006, his poem ‘The Uncles’ won 1st prize in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition.
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