Damian Walford Davies

Damian Walford Davies

 Damian Walford Davies

Damian Walford Davies is a poet, writer and librettist, born in Aberystwyth in 1971. He is
Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University and was formerly Head of the Department of
English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He served as Chair of Literature
Wales from 2012 to 2018, and from 2015 to 2018 was Chair of the Board of Cardiff
University Press. He writes creatively and critically in both English and Welsh.
He is the author of 5 collections from Seren: Suit of Lights (2009; selected for our Autumn
2009 Bookshelf), Witch (2012), Judas (2015), Docklands (2019) and Viva Bartali! (2023),
together with the pamphlet Alabaster Girls (Rack Press, 2015). His academic interests and
creative methods intermix: informed by deep histories of place, cartography and
psychogeography, his work to date is a concerted exploration of historical terror and
trauma, marginalised voices, gaps in the record and the availability of the past through the
use of the single-voice perspective of the dramatic monologue.

His latest poetry collection, Viva Bartali!, is selected for our 2023 Bookshelf.


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