Rhys Trimble

Rhys Trimble (born in 1977) is a bilingual poet, teacher, visual poet, visual artist, musician and improvisational performance artist based in Wales. Trimble was born in Livingstone, Zambia in 1977, and was raised in Pontypool and latterly the head of the Neath Valley - Pontneddfechan. Trimble completed his first degree in biochemistry in the University of Sussex in 1999. Trimble is considered an important part of Welsh avant garde. He completed a BA in literature and creative writing from Bangor University in 2010, and published his first book of poetry, Keinc, the same year. He lives in Bethesda, graduated with a BA in Literature and Creative Writing and has recently published his second novel Drone (Crater Press). Previous books include Keinc, Skine, The Red Book of Hergest Ward and kør (2023). He received a PhD from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. His doctoral thesis was titled "Tywysogion". He has authored more than 20 books of poetry in Wales, England, India and the US since 2010, including Swansea Automatic, Anatomy Mnemonics for Caged Waves (US) and Hexerisk. He is the vocalist with the Punk/Improv/Noise group Lolfa Binc. And Anxiolytics. Trimble has contributed works to public art in Denbigh, Conwy Valley and Blackpool, Trimble was Nominated for the TS Eliot prize 2016.

He edits the experimental poetry e-zine ctrl+alt-del. since 2008. His work has been translated into Slovak Latvian Anthologized in English and Spanish Galicean, Croatian, Romanian and Turkish. As an academic he has published articles in poetry Wales and had critical essays written on his work by Keely Laufer and Dr Daniel Williams. Trimble has performed in a number of countries around the world, and has taken part in the Gelynion Wales tour and the India-Wales international writing project. He is the founder of Awen 33 Arts, Bangor North Wales, Previous visiting poet at Bangor university and is currently a Bard in the Public Mapping Platform Project.