Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Victoria Adukwei Bulley | |
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| Born | Essex, England |
| Education | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable work | Quiet (2022) |
| Awards | Folio Prize; John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize |
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Bulley is of Ghanaian heritage, born and brought up in Essex, England. In 2019, she was awarded a Techne[2] scholarship for doctoral work at Royal Holloway, University of London.[1]
An alumna of The Complete Works poetry mentoring programme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo, Bulley has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil, and at the V&A.[1]
Writing[edit]
Bulley's writing has been published in works including Rising stars : new young voices in poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN 9781910959374), Ten: poets of the new generation (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN 9781780373829), Granta,[3] The Guardian,[4] and The White Review.[5]
She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues.[6][7]
Bulley's 2017 debut pamphlet Girl B was published by Akashic Books and included in the collection New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (ISBN 9781617755408).[8] Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut".[9]
Her first book collection, Quiet (2022), was praised in the TLS as "clever and capacious poems".[10] and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent".[11]
Recognition[edit]
Bulley won a 2018 Eric Gregory Award.[12]
Quiet was shortlisted for the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize[13] and won the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry.[14] Bulley also won the 2023 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for Quiet.[15]
Selected publications[edit]
- Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (2022). Quiet. Faber. ISBN 9780571370337.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership". www.techne.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (31 May 2022). "Three Poems". Granta. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Rumens, Carol (6 June 2022). "Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The White Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (Autumn 2017). "Report: Seven Thousand Songs". The Poetry Review. 107 (3). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Mother Tongues". Lagos International Poetry Festival. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)". Akashic Books. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Girl B – African Poetry Book Fund". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". TLS. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Dastidar, Rishi (3 June 2022). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners: 2018". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah (13 October 2022). "TS Eliot prize announces a 'shapeshifting' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize". Books+Publishing. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins 2023 Pollard International Poetry Prize". BookBrunch. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
External links[edit]
- Author profile on Faber website
- Interview, 2022 with Poetry London
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