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Dr Richard Gwyn

Overview

Dr Katie Gramich Position: Reader Email: Gwyn@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74887
Extension: 74887
Location: John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff

Personal Web Page

My personal web page can be found here:
www.richardgwyn.com

Research Group

English Literature/Creative Writing

Postgraduate Students

I will consider applications from students wishing to carry out research in creative writing, specializing in prose fiction, non-fiction or poetry. I especially welcome innovative proposals that overlap with my own research interests.

Research Interests

Creative and critical writing; the contemporary novel; Hispanic and Latin American fiction; modernist poetry; comparative literature.

Selected Publications

Deep Hanging Out. (2007) Snowbooks: London.
The Colour of a Dog Running Away. (2005/2007) Parthian: Cardigan/Doubleday:  
New York.
The Pterodactyl´s Wing: Welsh World Poetry. Editor (2003) Cardigan: Parthian.
Discourse, the Body and Identity. Editor, with Justine Coupland (2003) London: 
Palgrave Macmillan.
Communicating Health and Illness (2002). London: Sage.
Being in Water. (2001) Cardiff: Parthian.
Walking on Bones. (2000) Cardiff: Parthian.

Publications

Publications since 2000

 

Fiction

Gwyn, R. (2007) Deep Hanging Out.  London: Snowbooks. 336 pp.

Gwyn, R. (2005) The Colour of a Dog Running Away. Cardigan: Parthian Books. 360 pp

Fiction in overseas editions

Gwyn, R. (2007) The Color of a Dog Running Away. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 9780385518550 Hardcover (published as paperback by Anchor Books in March 2008)

Gwyn, R. (2007) Cor de burro quando foge, Lisbon: Bertrand. (Portuguese Edition of The Colour of a Dog Running Away)

Gwyn, R. (2007) Color cane che fugge, Vicenza: Neri Pozza. (Italian Edition of The Colour of a Dog Running Away)

Gwyn, R. (2008) Moscow: AST. (Russian Edition of The Colour of a Dog Running Away).

Gwyn, R. (2008) Istanbul: Açik Defter (Turkish Edition of The Colour of a Dog Running Away)  

Gwyn, R. (2006) Mujer en la noche, Barcelona: Roca. (Spanish Edition of The Colour of a Dog Running Away)

Poetry

Gwyn, R. (2003) Ed. The Pterodactyl´s Wing: Welsh World Poetry. Cardigan: Parthian Books. 326 pp. ISBN 190263828X.

Gwyn, R. (2001) Being in Water. Cardiff: Parthian Books. 46 pp. ISBN 190263812X.

Gwyn, R. (2000) Walking on Bones. Cardiff: Parthian Books. 88 pp. ISBN 1902638069.

Discourse Studies

Coupland, J. and Gwyn, R. (2003) Eds. Discourse, the Body and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 276 pp. ISBN 0333969006.

Gwyn, R. (2002) Communicating Health and Illness. London: Sage. 182 pp.

Book Chapters

Gwyn, R. (2008) Sexual Water: Poetry, Dionysus and the Aquatic Ape. In The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. pp. 11-26. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Gwyn, R. (2003) Narrative Analysis and Illness Experience. In A. Rogers, (Ed), Communication, Relationships and Care.  London: Routledge. ISBN 0415326605.

Gwyn, R. (2003) A Preface in Fragments The Pterodactyl´s Wing: Welsh World Poetry. pp xix-xxxii. Cardigan: Parthian Books.

Gwyn, R. (2003) Processes of re-figuration: shifting identities in cancer narratives. In J. Coupland and R. Gwyn (eds) Discourse, the Body and Identity. pp 1-16. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Coupland, J. and Gwyn, R. (2003) Introduction. J. Coupland and R. Gwyn (eds) Discourse, the Body and Identity. pp 209-224. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles

Gwyn, R. (2005) Letter from Greece. Poetry Wales: Forty Years. pp. 253-9.

Gwyn, R. (2005) Review Article: ‘Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life’ by Adam Feinstein. London: Bloomsbury. Poetry Wales pp. 56-60.

Gwyn, R., Elwyn, G., Edwards, A., and Mooney, A. (2003) The problematic of decision-sharing: Deconstructing ‘cholesterol’ in a clinical encounter. Health Expectations 6(3): 242-254.

Gwyn, R. (2001) 'Really unreal: narrative evaluation and the objectification of experience’. Narrative Inquiry 10 (2) pp. 313-40. ISSN 1053-6981.

Reviews

‘2666’ by Roberto Bolaño, London: Picador. The Independent, 9 January, 2009.

‘Happy Families’ by Carlos Fuentes, London: Bloomsbury. The Independent, 4 November, 2008.

‘The Lake’ by Paola Kaufmann, London: Alma Books. The Independent, 7 December 2007.

‘The Welsh Girl’ by Peter Ho Davies, London: Sceptre. The Independent, 1 June 2007.

‘Sanctuary’ by Matthew Sweeney; ‘Intimates’ by Helen Farish; ‘Blues’ by John Hartley Williams (all Jonathan Cape). Poetry Wales, 41 (2): 63-4 (2005)

‘The Black Heralds’ by César Vallejo, translated by Rebecca Seiferle. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press. Poetry Wales 41 (1): 60-1 (2005)

‘Words of Mercury’ by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Artemis Cooper. London: John Murray. Poetry Wales 40(1) pp 20-23 (2004).

 

Research

 

Biography