Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens FRSL is a British poet.
Life
Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to Manchester Grammar School and later studied Philosophy at London University, but left before completing her degree. She gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Writing for the Stage from City College Manchester in 2002.She taught at University of Kent at Canterbury, Queen's University Belfast, University College Cork, Stockholm University, and University of Hull. As visiting Professor of Creative Writing, she has taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, and later at the University of Hull.
Rumens was Poetry Editor for the publisher Quarto and the literary Review. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and Harper's. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. She also edited the poems of Elizabeth Bartlett and wrote Bartlett's obituary for The Guardian in 2008.
Awards
- 1981: New Statesman Prudence Farmer Award, for An Easter Garland
- 1984: Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, for Unplayed Music
- 1984:
- 1998: Belfast Arts Award for Literature, for Holding Pattern
- 1998: Forward Poetry Prize
- 2001: Cardiff International Poetry Competition
- 2001: National Poetry Competition
- 2002: Forward Poetry Prize
Works
Poetry
A Necklace of Mirrors Ulsterman, 1978Icon Waves The Star Wheel Press, 1986Novels
*Editor
- Slipping Glimpses: Winter Poetry Supplement, Poetry Book Society, 1985Two Women Dancing: New and Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bartlett, Bloodaxe, 1995Old City, New Rumours: A Hull Anthology (editor Five Leaves Press, 2010
Plays
Nearly Siberia The Freak of the Week Show Suzanne Hecabe.Translations
Pencil Letter /Irina Ratushinskaya, Bloodaxe, 1988After Pushkin, Carcanet, 2000 with Yuri DrobyshevYevgenii Rein: Selected Poems, Bloodaxe, 2001Non-fiction
- Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Bloodaxe, 2006