Susan Wicks
Susan Wicks is a British poet, and novelist.
She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent.
She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She lives in Tunbridge Wells.Awards
Singing Underwater won the 1992 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize.
The Clever Daughter was shortlisted for both the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, and 1996 Forward Poetry Prize. Her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's Pas Revoir won the 2010 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and it was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She won the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's Talking Vrouz.Works
Poetry
- Singing Underwater, Faber and Faber, 1992
- Open diagnosis , Faber and Faber, 1994,
- The Clever Daughter, Faber and Faber, 1996,
- Night Toad: New & Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books, 2003,
- De-iced, Bloodaxe Books, 2007,
- House of Tongues, Bloodaxe Books, 2011,
- The Months, Bloodaxe Books, 2016,
Poetry translations
- Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter, Arc, 2009,
- Valérie Rouzeau, Talking Vrouz, Arc, 2013,
- Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry, 2015. Enitharmon Press
Memoir
- Driving My Father, Faber and Faber, 1995,
Novels
- The Key, Faber and Faber, 1997,
- Little Thing. Faber and Faber, 1998,
Short stories
- Roll Up for the Arabian Derby, bluechrome, 2008,
