Ian Davidson

Ian Davidson has been writing and publishing since the early 1980s. A Welsh speaker who mainly writes in English, he was brought up on Ynys Môn where he now lives, and was educated at Essex and Aberystwyth. He received an AHRC Creative Fellowship through Yr Academi Gymreig in 2003 and teaches literature and creative writing in the University of Wales, Bangor.

He performs his work regularly, both locally and abroad. He co-edits Skald magazine with Zoë Skoulding, with whom he has also written collaboratively and given a number of performances.

Recent poetry publications include the chapbook Human Remains and Sudden Movements (West House 2003), a collection of 39 fourteen-line poems in Harsh (Spectacular Diseases 2003), the collection At a Stretch (Shearsman 2004) and the pamphlet No Way Back (West House 2005). His next full-length collection, As if Only, is forthcoming from Shearsman in early 2007.

His critical work consists of essays and reviews on contemporary poetry and poetics, and a monograph, Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2007.

In August 2007, as a result of a one-month residency in Riga, Latvia, he constructed a web space which documented his travels through and around the city in poetry and photographs which can be viewed here. This work was part of the Sealines project, managed by Literature Across Frontiers, with support from Welsh Literature Abroad and Wales Arts International.