Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in west Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College,Vermont, and is the author of several collections of poetry, including War Voices (1995); The Arches (1998) Heaven's Gate (2001) and Crossing Over (2007).He has also written books of criticism, including How Poets Work (1996), Welsh Painters Talking (1997), The Art of Seamus Heaney (1982) and Dannie Abse (1985). He is the editor of several books, including The Poetry of Pembrokeshire(1989); The Poetry of Snowdonia (1989) and Coal: an anthology of mining (1997) and The Meaning of Apricot Sponge: Selected Writing of John Tripp, 2010.Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he founded and directed the M. Phil Writing course. He won the 1993 Dylan Thomas Award and a Cholmondeley Award in 1997.and was awarded a D.

Litt in 2004. He has toured extensively in Europe and the USA giving poetry readings and lectures He lives in Barry, Wales. After fifty years of writing and publishing his selected poems and fiction are about to be published - see listings below.