Sheenagh Pugh
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Born | Birmingham, England | 20 December 1950
Occupation | Poet, novelist, translator |
Language | English |
Period | 1977– |
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Sheenagh Pugh (born 20 December 1950) is a British poet, novelist and translator who writes in English.[1] Her book, Stonelight (1999) won the Wales Book of the Year award.
Pugh was born in
Life
Pugh was born in
Pugh's interest in northern landscapes is well-known and a strong feature of her work. One of her novels, Kirstie's Witnesses, is set in Shetland and several poems in Long-Haul Travellers are set in Norway.
Her poem "Sometimes" (Selected Poems, 1990) appeared in Poems on the Underground and is among her best-known works, though Pugh herself states on her website that she "long ago got sick of it"
Pugh has also published a study of
Pugh's collection Long-Haul Travellers was published by Seren in Autumn 2008. It features several poems set in Norway and a sequence about the Dutch privateer turned Barbary pirate Murat Reis.[5] Long-Haul Travellers was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize and longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year prize. Pugh has since published Short Days, Long Shadows in 2014 and Afternoons Go Nowhere, 2019, both from Seren.
Works
Poetry
- Crowded by Shadows (1977)
- What a Place to Grow Flowers (1979)
- Earth Studies and Other Voyages (1982)
- Beware Falling Tortoises (1987)
- Sing for the Taxman (1993)
- Id's Hospit (1997)
- Stonelight (1999)
- The Beautiful Lie (2002)
- The Movement of Bodies (2005)
- Long-Haul Travellers (2008)
- Later Selected Poems (2009)
- Short Days, Long Shadows (2014)[6]
- Afternoons Go Nowhere (2019)
Poetry anthologies
- Selected Poems (1990)
- What If This Road and Other Poems (2003)
Novels
- Kirstie's Witnesses (1998)
- Folk Music (1999)
Translation
- Prisoners of Transience (1985)
Nonfiction
- The Democratic Genre (2005)
All published by
References
- ^ James Persoon and Robert R. Watson (2015). "Pugh, Sheenagh", Encyclopedia of British Poetry: 1900 to the Present, Infobase Learning.
- ^ "Poetry: Sheenagh Pugh". The Island Review. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-55862-035-3.
- ^ a b The Dreaded Sometimes: Sheenagh Pugh's website Archived 21 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 28 June 2007)
- ^ Sheenagh Pugh: Long-Haul Travellers Archived 30 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 26 April 2008)
- ^ "Three Shetland poems by Sheenagh Pugh". The Island Review. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2021.