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Early Life
Carl was born and brought up in Handsworth, Birmingham. He is the oldest of seven children. He attended St Augustine’s Primary School and then Stockland Green Bilateral School as part of an experimental Art Stream.

After leaving school he worked as a bread rounds-man, toy salesman and labourer on various building sites throughout the West Midlands. He became an office junior in the Department of Employment and Productivity, contacting people willing to move to the ‘new towns’ of Dawley, Redditch and Milton Keynes. After that he worked at gathering statistics on world copper production for the British Non-Ferrous Metals Federation, followed by a six-month period as a labourer with Manpower at the BSA factory. While working at his day jobs he attended evening classes at Matthew Boulton Technical College where he passed his ‘A’ levels.

University
He studied English Language and Literature at University College Swansea (1970-73) and was the first member of his family to go to university. He narrowly missed a first class degree – the reason given by one of his lecturers was that in a finals essay on John Wilmot Earl of Rochester he appeared to enjoy the poet’s amorality and was consequently marked down for ‘moral turpitude’. He went on to complete an MA on the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (1973-74), took an active part in a great many theatre productions (Shakespeare, Tourneur, Albee, Chekhov, Pinter, Durrenmatt, Frisch and Lorca) and was a founder-member of Swansea Studio Group for whom he wrote sketches in The Walking Upright Show (1974).

Post-university
There were very few academic posts around at the time, so Carl took on a series of jobs, including fish chef, toilet attendant in a mental hospital, building site labourer, reader for blind academics and Butlin’s Redcoat (he won the Barry Island Best Redcoat award). In 1974 he accepted a post lecturing in English Language at Wrocław Technical University, Poland. In 1975 he moved to new University of Gdańsk, where he was the first foreign appointment, lecturing in English Language and Literature.

In 1976 he was offered a trainee directorship at Theatre Clwyd, but upon returning to the UK was told the post had ‘evaporated’ in the cuts: he took on teaching General Studies in the ‘twilight zone’ (evenings) to apprentice panel-beaters, welders, bricklayers and miners at the West Glamorgan College of Further Education. Over the next three years he wrote several scripts for Open Cast Theatre including The ‘A’ Card (1977) and Effie’s Folly or Ignorance Rewarded (1979) and contributed to their devised productions Jack’s Return or The Maid of Mynedd Saes (1978) and Fair Play (1979).

Carl completed a postgraduate teaching qualification in Applied Linguistics at Leeds University (1978-79), with teaching practice at Veldhoven MAVO in Holland, and at Bradford College. He taught English Language at University College Swansea and then in the autumn of 1980 returned to Poland to take up a British Council post as Assistant Director of English Courses at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After a severe winter, food shortages and the stress of the political situation he returned to the UK in 1981, just ahead of the declaration of Martial Law in Poland.

Freelancing in Cardiff
Carl took up residence in Riverside, Cardiff. Operating as a free-lance writer he published articles, stories and poems: he was writer in residence with Action PIE theatre company, Yr Academi Gymreig and Arts for the Disabled People of Wales, script reader for BBC Wales, wrote stories and articles for Planet, Radical Wales and Arcade produced a regular review for Drama, scripts for How to Be a Lady and two radio plays Little Jack Horner and Baku! (BBC Wales and Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 1985) His stage plays Jewels, The Prince and the Dragon, The Hammer and the Anvil were given rehearsed readings at the Tabard Theatre in London.

Carl was Secretary of the Wales Branch of Theatre Writers Union 1982-86, and took a lead in negotiating the first standard contract for theatre writers in Wales. In 1987 he was elected to Yr Academi Gymreig (The Welsh Academi) for his services to literature in Wales.

Manchester
After a brief spell in London, when his play A Whisper in the Wind won the 1988 All London Drama Award, he moved to Manchester and for more than a decade offered classes for the University Extra Mural Department in Science Fiction, World Literature, Contemporary Fiction, and Writing from the Other Europe.

In 1989 he started a PhD on post-war Polish literature and politics in the Department of Government, completed in 1992. His first book Gdańsk: National Identity in the Polish German Borderlands was published in 1989 and his first collection, Rejoice! & Other Stories, appeared in 1992. During this period he taught part-time at Abraham Moss College, Manchester City College, Manchester Metropolitan University, and for the Open University. He was also Head of Course for the Anglo World summer school in Oxford – this was the largest residential summer school in the UK and was highly praised by the British Council.

Derby University
In 1998 Carl was appointed Subject Leader of Creative Writing at University of Derby where he made a substantial contribution to establishing a culture of research, led the development of the UK’s first undergraduate degree in Creative Writing, mapped out an integrated BA/MA in Creative Writing. In 2002 he became Derby University’s first ever professor in the Humanities and the UK’s first Professor of Creative Writing. He was also associate editor for the Journal of European Studies and a Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Reputation as a writer
Working without an agent and using small independent publishers Carl has been unfettered by demands for the repetition of previous success. Consequently he has turned a low public profile to artistic advantage, producing a range of lively, entertaining, challenging and startlingly different works around the intersection of the politics of identity and the politics of the wider world. Carl has had several awards and nominations for his writing.
 * A Whisper in the Wind, All-London Drama Award, 1988
 * Gdansk Nominated for the Silver PEN Award, 1991
 * Rejoice! Nominated for the David Higham Award, 1992
 * Rejoice! Shortlisted for The Irish Times Fiction Prize, November 1993
 * Pax: Variations, Winner of City Life Writer of the Year 2000 Award
 * Burning Worm Short-listed for Whitbread Award, 2002
 * Burning Worm Winner of Authors’ Club Award, 2002
 * KssssS: a Tale of Sex, Money & Alien Invasion Nominated for the Welsh Academy Book of the Year Award, 2004

Carl’s web-documents Creative and Professional Writing @ University: Frequently Asked Questions and the accompanying Creative Writing Archive (both on his personal website) have been described as ‘a goldmine’, ‘setting the subject standard’ and ‘an incredibly generous gift’. Carl’s poetry and stories have been published in journals in Canada, USA, Poland, Hungary, Holland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Luxemburg and Turkey, but particularly in the literary magazine Ambit. Many of his essays have appeared in the Journal of European Studies.

Fiction
Rejoice! & Other Stories (Cape, 1992)

Pax Variations (IMPress, 2000)

Burning Worm (IMPress, 2001)

KssssS: a Tale of Sex, Money & Alien Invasion (IMPress, 2004)

Druids Hill (Five Leaves Press, 2008)

Non-fiction
The Playwrights’ Register (Yr Academi Gymreig, 1984)

Gdańsk: National Identity in the Polish German Borderlands (Pluto, 1989)

The Politics of Literature: Polish Writers and Communism 1945-89 (University of Wales Press, 1999)

Writing and Responsibility (Routledge, 2005)

Writing the World: Writing as a Subject of Study (Kingston University Press, 2014)

Creative and Professional Writing @ University: Frequently Asked Questions (IMPress, 2015), www.carltighe.co.uk Creative Writing Archive, www.carltighe.co.uk

Articles and essays

 * ‘Wole Soyinka: Poetry & Politics in Nigeria’, Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka, J. Gibbs (ed.), Heinemann/Three Continents Press, 1980, ISBN 0-914478-49-4 pbk; ISBN 0-914478-50-8 hbk
 * ‘Theatre or Not in Wales’, Wales: the Imagined Nation, T. Curtis (ed.), Poetry Wales Press, 1986, ISBN 0-907476-54-6
 * ‘How Green is my Corn?’ in: Playwrights: An Endangered Species, Theatre Writers Union, 1982
 * ‘Stanisław Lem’s Solaris’, Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War, P. J. Davies (ed.), Manchester University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7190-3288-1
 * ‘The Party and the Polish Language’, The Works, N.Jenkins (ed.), Welsh Union of Writers, 1991, ISBN 0-9510337-2-7.
 * ‘Interview with Ryszard Kapuśćinski’, The Works, N. Jenkins (ed.), Welsh Union of Writers, 1991, ISBN 0-9510337-2-7.
 * ‘Pax Germanica’, in: O. Durrani & J. Preece (eds.), Travellers in Time & Space: Reisende durch Zeit und Raum: The German Historical Novel: Der deutschsprachige historische Roman, Rodopi, Amsterdam-New York 2001, ISBN 90-420-1405-9
 * ‘Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi’ in: J. W. Hunter (ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism vol 149 (New York, 2002), ISBN 0-7876-5218-0 pbk; ISSN 0091-3421 hbk
 * ‘Wole Soyinka: Poetry & Politics in Nigeria’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, May 1974, ISSN 0021-9894
 * ‘Conrad’s Prince Roman’, Notes & Queries, September 1978, ISSN 0029-3970
 * ‘A Conrad Allusion’, Notes & Queries, August 1982, ISSN 0029-3970
 * ‘From Tremadoc to Sketty Hall - Theatre in Wales’, Platform 5, Spring 1983
 * ‘In Passing’ (trans. from S. Mrożek) in: On Censorship, D. Bush (ed.), Welsh Union of Writers, Cardiff, 1986, ISBN 0-9510337-1-9
 * ‘Church and State in Poland’, Monthly Review, December 1986, ISBN 0027-0520. Also available at: www.looksmartcollege.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_v39
 * ‘Poland and Socialism’, Monthly Review, June 1987, ISBN 0027-0520. Also available at: www.looksmartcollege.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_v39
 * ‘Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum in Poland’, Journal of European Studies xix, 1989, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Günter Grass’ Kashubian Background, Planet 75, June/July 1989, ISBN 0048-4288
 * ‘Disappearing Danzig’, Literature and History 2/1 Spring 1991, ISSN 0306-1973
 * ‘Partyspeak in Poland’, Our History Journal 18, November 1991, ISSN 0141 3449
 * ‘Living in Unreality: Politics and language in the People’s Republic of Poland’, Journal of European Studies xxii, 1992, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘From Communist Unreality to Capitalist Reality: Polish literature and the change to a Market Economy’, Journal of European Studies, September 1994, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Life and Times of Jerzy Andrzejewski’, Journal of European Studies, December 1995, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Tadeusz Konwicki’s A Minor Apocalypse’, Modern Language Review, January 1996
 * The Polish Writing Profession 1944-56’, Contemporary European History, spring 1996, ISSN 0960-7773
 * ‘Jan Kott: Revisionist’, Journal of European Studies, Oct 1996, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Ryszard Kapuściński’s The Emperor’, Modern Language Review, Nov 1996
 * ‘A Hell of Time: Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Thomas Mann’, English Studies 7, Sept 1997, ISBN 2-87971-120-7
 * ‘Lands by Wit: Shakespeare, King Lear & the ‘Welcombe Deal’, English Studies 7 Sept 1997, ISBN 2-87971-120-7
 * ‘Adam Michnik’, Journal of European Studies, Dec 1997, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Kazimierz Brandys’ Warsaw Diaries’, Contemporary European History, May 1998, ISSN 0960-7773
 * ‘Cultural Pathology: Roots and Branches of Polish Literary Opposition to Communism Part I’, Journal of European Studies, October 1998, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Cultural Pathology: Roots and Branches of Polish Literary Opposition to Communism Part 2’, Journal of European Studies, September 1999, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Zebra Striping: Shakespeare’s Othello’, English Studies 8, November 1998, ISBN 2-87971-218-1
 * ‘Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, Modern Language Review, July 1999
 * ‘Juliusz Zuławski: Interview’, International PEN, May 1999, ISSN 1010-4534
 * ‘Pax Germanica’, Journal of European Studies, September 2000, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Spysez & Wortez in Pearl’, English Studies 10, August 2001, ISBN 2-87971-229-7
 * ‘Kazimuh: Jewish Krakow’, Journal of European Studies, June 2001, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Oh F**k! Writing & Bad Language’, English Studies 11, August 2002, ISBN 2-87971-238-6
 * ‘Creative Writing? On the History and the Future of Creative Writing in Universities’ Writing in Education National Association of Writers in Education Journal, winter 2006, pp 51-57, ISSN 1361-8539
 * ‘Six, Franz Alfred, a career in the shadows’, The Journal of European Studies, March 2007, ISSN 0047-2441
 * ‘Worlds without Writing’, PASE Papers 2008 Vol. 2, Studies in Culture and Literature, edited by Anna Cichoń and Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, Wrocław, 2009, ISBN 978-8374-32482-3
 * ‘Poland Translated: Post-Communist writing in Poland: A Survey’, for the Max Planck Institute (Berlin) special issue of Studies in East European Thought, 2010 no 62: pp169–195, ISSN: 0925-9392 (print version), ISSN: 1573-0948 (electronic version)
 * ‘Hungarian Writers in Transition to Democracy: Budapest Diary December 1990’, Journal of European Studies, vol. 4 No 4, December 2010, ISSN 0047-2441, online ISSN 1740-2379
 * ‘Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi’, translated into Turkish as the introduction to a new edition of Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris, part of the new World Classics series, published by Iletisim Publishing, Binbirdirek Meydani Sok. Iletisim Han 7/3, 34122 Cagaloglu Istanbul, Turkey, series edited by novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk, Jan 2011. ISBN 13:978-975-470-625-3
 * ‘Jan Kochanowski: Polish Poet’, Journal of European Studies, September 2012: ISSN 0047-2441, online ISSN 1740-2379
 * ‘Kundera’s Kidnap Revisited’ Journal of European Studies May 2014, ISSN 0047-2441, online ISSN 1740-2379
 * ‘Bible Knowledge and Multi-Cultural Society’, in: A. Walczuk & W. Witalisz (eds.), Old Challenges and New Horizons in English and American Studies: Text – Meaning – Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture vol. 9, Frankfurt am Main / Warsaw: Peter Lang GmbH, 2014. ISBN 978-3-631-65028-8 (print) 978-3-653- 03985-6 (eBook); ISSN 2191-1894; DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-03985-6
 * ‘Creative Writing and Biblical Literacy’ in Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Special Issue, v7i2, (2011) August 2014, (New York) edited by James Crossley & Ioana Hine, 2013: pp.173–196 ISSN (print) 1743-887x; DOI.: 10.1558/post.v7.2.173; ISSN (online) 1743-8888
 * ‘Creative Writing at University – Agenda, Curriculum, Focus’ in: The Bloomsbury Guide to Contemporary Fiction, C. Berberich, (ed.), Bloomsbury, 2014. ISBN-10: 1441172017: ISBN-13: 978-1441172013
 * ‘Forward to Battle for the Six Year Plan! Polish Writers 1945-56’, Journal of European Studies, June 2015: ISSN 0047-2441, online ISSN 1740-2379
 * ‘How to Choose a University Writing Course’, Writing in Education, no 66, National Association of Writers in Education Journal, summer 2015. ISSN 1361-8539.
 * ‘Writing in the School of Art & Design’, Sheffield Hallam University Proceedings: Conference Papers from Sheffield Hallam University (15-16 April 2000), HE Journal 2, www.194.205.189.34/nawe/HE%20Forum/derby
 * ‘Creative Writing Marking Guidelines’: Learning Teaching and Support Network 2004:
 * www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/events/cwriting/docs/Tighe.rtf. 2004 and / or: www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/events/archive/cwriting/docs/Tighe/rtf
 * ‘Number Crunching the Engineers of Human Souls: Polish Writers as a Social Group’, Twentieth Century Communism, March 2017. ISBN 9781910448953

Arts and Theatre Journalism

 * ‘Is there life after Milk Wood?’ Arcade, January 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Notes from the Bread Queue’, Arcade, May 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Exit the Revolution’, Arcade, June 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Peace, Jobs and Freedom’, Arcade, July 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Grotowski the Guru’, Arcade, August 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’, Arcade, September 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Beyond the Corner Shop’, Arcade, November 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Man of Celluloid’, Arcade, November 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Guilt by Association’, Arcade, November 1981, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Delving into the Psyche’, Arcade, February 1982, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Triumph over Tribulation’, Arcade, February 1982, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Getting a Kick out of Life’, Arcade, March 1982, ISSN 0261-538X
 * ‘Who’s to blame?’ The Edmonton Journal, 19 July 1981
 * ‘Conditions in Poland’, The Edmonton Journal, 11 November 1981
 * ‘Solidarity sparks emotions’, The Edmonton Journal, 11 November 1981
 * ‘In troubled times’, The Edmonton Journal, 11 November 1981
 * ‘Surge of Discontent in Wales’, The Edmonton Journal, 7 December 1981
 * ‘Pope’s UK Tour’, The Edmonton Journal, 20 February 1982
 * ‘Martial Law’, The Edmonton Journal, 20 March 1983
 * ‘Poland’, The Edmonton Journal, 9 June 1984
 * ‘Attitudes are changing’, The Stage, 12 February 1983
 * ‘Romans in Britain banned from Swansea Stage’, The Stage, 8 March 1983
 * ‘Romans in Britain Ban’, The Stage, 13 October 1983
 * ‘Clarifying The Romans in Britain’ (letter) The Stage, 27 October 1983
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.145, 1982
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.146, 1982
 * ‘Cardiff Laboratory Theatre’, Drama, no.146, 1982
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.147, 1983
 * ‘The Theatre Workshop Story’, Drama, no.147, 1983
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.148, 1983
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.149, 1983
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.150, 1983
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.151, 1984
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.152, 1984
 * ‘All Together Now’, Drama, no.152, 1984
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.153, 1984
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.154, 1984
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.155, 1985
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.156, 1985
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.157, 1985
 * ‘Polish Theatre’, Drama, no.158, 1985
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.159, 1986
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.160, 1986
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.161, 1986
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.162, 1986
 * ‘Wales’, Drama, no.163, 1987
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, April 1982
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, July 1982
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, December 1982
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, January 1983
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, March 1983
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, May 1983
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, March 1984
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, June 1984
 * ‘TWU Meets the ACGB New Writing Committee’, TWU Newsletter, September 1984
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, September 1984
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, December 1984
 * ‘Wales Branch Report’, TWU Newsletter, January 1983
 * ‘Talk About Welsh Theatre’ TWU Newsletter, May 1985
 * ‘House of Commons Select Committee on Welsh Affairs: Minutes & Evidence’ TWU Newsletter, January 1985
 * ‘Jan Vladislav, Václav Havel; Living in Truth’, Wales on Sunday, February 1989
 * ‘Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Europe, Europe’, Wales on Sunday, March 1989
 * ‘Janusz Anderman, The Edge of the World’, Wales on Sunday, April 1989
 * ‘Stanislaw Lem’, Literary Review, March 1983
 * ‘Zbigniew Herbert’, BWA, Spring 1984
 * Playwrights on Offer (Scheme) South East Wales Arts Association, 1985
 * The Playwrights’ Register, (Pilot) Yr Academi Gymreig, 1983
 * ‘Parochial and Dangerous’, Radical Wales, summer, 1985
 * ‘Berlin’ Radical Wales, autumn 1986
 * ‘Intelligence Report’, Radical Wales 14, spring 1987
 * ‘Intelligence Report’, Index on Censorship, September 1999, Website: www.oneworld.org/index_oc
 * ‘New Writing Festival’, Planet, June 1985
 * ‘Ed Anger’s Angst’, Planet, August 1986, ISSN 0048-4288
 * ‘Act of Confusion’, The Radio Times, 8-14 March 1986
 * ‘W. M. Miller Jnr’s A Canticle for Leibowitz’, City Life, 24 June 1998
 * ‘Cheers for the Whitbread’, The Lecturer, Feb 2002
 * 'The Author's View', Opening the Book, October 2003, www.branching-out.net

Short fiction and Poetry

 * ‘Day Out’ Element 5, no.3, 1983
 * ‘The Bird House’ Spectrum, June 1983, ISSN 0264-1194
 * ‘The Colour of Your Money’ Iron, no.46, June 1985, ISSN 0140-7597
 * ‘A Happy Story’ Frames, no.4, 1985, ISSN 0265-6396
 * ‘Rejoice’ Planet, June 1985, ISSN 0048-4288
 * ‘A State of Mind’ Planet, August 1987, ISSN 0048-4288
 * ‘Andzrej D: Polish Poet’ Poetry Wales, spring 1988, ISSN 0332-2202
 * ‘And Now This’ Ambit, no.113, August 1988, ISSN 0002-6772
 * ‘And Now This’ 20/20, August 1989
 * ‘Bug Out’ Ambit: Irish Edition, no.115, February 1989, ISSN 0002-6772
 * ‘Bug Out’ Blueprint, August 1989
 * ‘Interviews after Midnight’ Margins, no.10, April, 1990, ISSN 0950-5091
 * ‘And Now This’ Passport, no.3, 1991, ISSN 0960-3697
 * ‘En Nu Dit’ De Tweede Ronde, Spring 1991, ISSN 0166-1868
 * ‘Underground’ New Hungarian Quarterly, no.124, winter 1991, ISSN 0028-5390
 * ‘Medhbh’ Literary Review, February 1992, ISSN 0144 4360
 * ‘Reservations’ Metropolitan, winter 1993, ISSN 1350-3227
 * ‘Snowman’ Metropolitan, winter 1994, ISSN 1350-3227
 * ‘A State of Mind’ The Big Issue in the North, 19-25 August 1996
 * ‘Visa’ Metropolitan, spring 1997, ISSN 1350-3227
 * ‘Hartland’ Ambit, no.149, July 1997, ISSN 0002-6772
 * ‘Al Haqq’ Ambit, no.151, February 1998, ISSN 0002-6772
 * ‘Driving Der Führer’ De Tweede Ronde, August 1998, ISSN 90-282-1204-3
 * ‘Visiting Auntie’ Ambit, no.158, November 1999, ISSN 0002-6772
 * ‘Visiting Auntie’ www.ambit.co.uk November 1999
 * ‘Visiting Auntie’ Heads Exhibition Derby Museum & Art Gallery 15-27 January 2000
 * ‘Rejoice!’ (German trans), Erkundungen: 28 Walisische Erzahler, Berlin, 1989, ISBN 3-353-00361-4
 * ‘And Now This’, Best Short Stories of 1989, G. Gordon & D. Hughes (eds.), 1990, ISBN 0434-35417-1
 * ‘And Now This’, Minerva Short Stories 2, G. Gordon & D. Hughes (eds.), 1991, ISBN 0-7493-9085-9
 * ‘Medhbh’, Six Irish Writers, M. McKernon (ed.), Cape, 1992.
 * ‘Trumpet of Victory’, Telling Stories 3, D. Minshull (ed.), BBC publications, 1994, ISBN 0-340-59794-1
 * ‘Virtporn’, Waterstone’s Alien Landings, August 1997
 * ‘Reservations’, The Best Short Stories of 1994, G. Gordon & D. Hughes (eds.), 1994, ISBN 0-434-00164-3 pbk, ISBN 0-434-00034-4 hbk
 * ‘KssssS’ (selection from novel) Ambit, no.167, January 2002, ISSN 0002-6772
 * ‘Visiting Auntie’, Manchester Stories 3, R. Page (ed.), City Life 2002, ISBN 0-9541084-2-6
 * ‘No Breakfast’, www.the-phone-book.com September 2002
 * ‘Living in the Irish Sea’, short story, The Quiet Quarter anthology of New Irish Writing, RTE/New Island (Dublin), 2004, ISBN I-904301-62 -2
 * ‘Living in the Irish Sea’, short story, The Quiet Quarter: Ten Years of Great Irish Writing, RTE/Lyric fm/New Island (Dublin), 2009, ISBN 978-1-84840-052-8
 * ‘Best Man’, The Warwick Review, March 2010
 * ‘Neighbours and Strangers’, Ambit no 200, spring 2010, ISSN 0002-6972
 * ‘Six Memories’, The Warwick Review, June 2012
 * ‘Two Nuns’, Istanbul Review: The Screen of Literature (Istanbul) March 2013, ISSN 2146-9547
 * ‘Early Days’, Ambit no 213, August 2013, ISSN 0002-6972.
 * ‘Five Poems’, Element 5, 1982
 * ‘Four Poems’, Frames, 3, 1985, ISBN 0265-6396
 * ’Three Poems’, Iron 42, February 1984, ISSN 0140-7597
 * ‘Black Man, White Man’, Poets against Apartheid, Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement, ISBN 0-9511323-0-X
 * ‘Black Man, White Man’, Poetry Street 2, D. Orme & J. Sale (eds.), 1990, ISBN 0-582-03925-8
 * ‘Black Man, White Man’, English GC4 Workbook, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-464-05268-0
 * ‘Two Poems’, The Affectionate Punch 2, November 1995, ISSN 1360-9556
 * ‘Crazy Eddie and the Teaching Machine’, Citi-Zine (Citi-Zine Collective: Derby) June 2010
 * ‘Seven poems’, Ambit no 203, February 2011, ISSN 0002-6972
 * ‘Fourteen Poems’, The Swansea Review Spring 2012: www.swanseareview.com/2012/editorial
 * ‘Joyspring’, 80 Words for Martin Bax, Ambit Press, August 2013

Stage and Radio

 * The Walking Upright Show, (joint author) Studio Group 1974
 * Work in Progress, a radio play, published in Prospect 1, 1974
 * Little Dogs, with music by Lydia Aylot, Gdansk, 1976
 * The ‘A’ Card, Open Cast Theatre, commissioned and produced, 1977
 * Effie’s Folly or Ignorance Rewarded, Open Cast Theatre, 1979
 * Fair Play, co-devised and scripted, Open Cast Theatre, 1979
 * Jewels, reading by Studio Group, 1979; reading by PoW! 1985; reading by Tabard Theatre, 1986
 * The Prince and the Dragon, reading by Made in Wales, 1983
 * How to be a Lady: v.1 and v.2, co-scripted, Chwarae Teg, 1981-82
 * The Big Break, Action PIE, commissioned and produced 1982
 * The Hammer and the Anvil, reading by PoW! 1984; reading by Tabard, 1985
 * Comic Cabaret Sketches, 24 Hour Speaking Programme, 1984-5
 * A Whisper in the Wind, winner of the All-London Drama Prize, 1987
 * Rejoice! Commissioned by WOT Theatre, Cardiff 1989; Soho Theatre, workshop, April 1997
 * KssssS, stage-play version of the novel, commissioned by Contact Theatre with development finance from the BBC and North West Arts Board, spring 2003
 * Little Jack Horner, BBC Wales / Raidió Teilifís Éireann Dublin, 1985
 * Baku! Commissioned & devised for BBC Wales, 1986
 * ‘The Bird House’, BBC Wales, Morning Story, 11 April 1989
 * ‘The Trumpet of Victory’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 19 July 1993
 * ‘Day Out’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 31 August 1994
 * ‘Andrzej, Polish Poet’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 6 December 1995
 * ‘April Fool’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 1 April 1996
 * ‘Lucy’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 9 September 1996
 * ‘Radio Regen Tall Tales: Burning Worm’, Radio Regen, 13 August 2000
 * ‘One’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 24 June 2002
 * ‘Two’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 25 June 2002
 * ‘Three’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 26 June 2002
 * ‘Four’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 27 June 2002
 * ‘Five’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 28 June 2002
 * ‘Mothers’ BBC Radio 4, Off the Page, 6 Sept 2002
 * ‘Naggety-Nag’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 24 December 2002