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Duncan Bush

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Duncan Bush
Born	1946 Cardiff, Wales
Died	(2017-08-18)18 August 2017
Occupation	Poet, novelist, dramatist, translator, documentary writer
Language	English
Nationality	Welsh
Period	1974–2017
Notable works	The Genre of Silence (1987) Masks (1994)
Notable awards	Wales Book of the Year, 1995

Duncan Bush (6 April 1946 – 18 August 2017)^[1] was a Welsh poet, novelist, dramatist (for film, TV, radio and stage), translator and documentary writer.^[2]

Bush was born in Cardiff. He was educated at Warwick University, Duke University and Wadham College, Oxford.^[3] His collections Aquarium and Salt were awarded the Welsh Arts Council Prize for Poetry in 1984 and 1986 respectively – both republished in a single volume The Hook (Seren Books). His 1995 collection, Masks, was a Poetry Society recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year award for an English-language work.

His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous magazines and major anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories, Granta, The London Magazine, The New Poetry, Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry, The Firebox.

He published three novels: The Genre of Silence (Seren, 1987) is set in the USSR during the Civil War; a psychological thriller, Glass Shot (Secker & Warburg hardback 1991; Mandarin paperback, 1993), takes place during the 1985-6 Miners’ Strike; and Now All The Rage (Colophon, 2007) unfolds in an obsessive imaginative borderland between fame and obscurity. His collection of poetry The Flying Trapeze (Seren) appeared in 2012.

He also adapted his work for TV and radio and did commissioned work for film. Keenly interested in film, he wrote and presented the BBC Wales TV documentary Voices In The Dark: A Hundred Years of Cinema in Wales.

He published essays on a variety of literary topics, and regularly reviewed on contemporary poetry and fiction for a number of periodicals, including The London Magazine, Poetry Wales and the Luxemburger Wort. In addition he published numerous translations from French and Italian poetry. During his last years he was working on a new collection of poetry, and preparing his translations of the complete poems of Cesare Pavese.

He was founding co-editor of The Amsterdam Review, a bi-annual magazine featuring European literature in English or English translation.^[4]

Duncan Bush taught at various schools, colleges and universities in Great Britain, continental Europe and the USA.

Works

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Poetry

Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974)
Aquarium (1984)
Salt (1986)
Masks (1995)
The Hook (1997)
Midway (1997)
The Flying Trapeze (2012)

Novels

The Genre of Silence (1987)
Glass Shot (1991)
Now All the Rage (2007)

References

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^ "Duncan Bush, Welsh poet - obituary". The Telegraph. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
^ "Duncan Bush (1946 – 2017)". Literature Wales. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
^ "Seren Books: Biography". Archived from the original on 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
^ Robert Minhinnick, "Greatest Welsh Novel #25: The Genre of Silence by Duncan Bush", Wales Arts Review, Issue 19. Accessed 13 November 2014

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