Duncan Bush. Writers of Wales

Duncan Bush (1946–2017) was an ambitious, challenging and self-styled ‘working class’ writer from Cardiff, who spent periods living in France and Luxembourg. Following early academic success, he devoted himself to his own prose and poetry and published several volumes of writings that include Aquarium (1984), The Genre of Silence (1987) and The Flying Trapeze (2012). In both personal and political contexts, Bush’s novel Glass Shot (1991) elaborated on feelings arising from the 1984–5 miners’ strike, and his works more broadly express an interest in cinema and the nuanced influence the USA had on his life. 

The present volume also contains material by Bush not previously freely available in the public domain, including his largely uncollected translations from French and Italian poetry.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Biography
• Early Publications: Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets 1974, Green Horse 1978, Nostos 1980, Aquarium 1983, Salt 1985
• The Radical Bush
• Gwlad, Gwlad? Duncan Bush and Wales
• The Genre of Silence (1988)
• Playwright
• Glass Shot (1991)
• Masks (1994) and Midway (1998)
• Are there Still Wolves in Pennsylvania? (from ‘Masks’, 1994)
• The Amsterdam Review (2004 – 2006)
• Now All the Rage (2008)
• The Flying Trapeze (2012)
• Unpublished and Uncollected Poems
• Screen Life (including unpublished, undated writings)
• Short Prose (including unpublished work)
• Other Writings and Reviews
• Afterword
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography