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Graham Mort is a British writer, editor and tutor, who "is acknowledged as one of contemporary verse's most accomplished practitioners".〔(Sex, death and foxes | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books )〕 He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, has written radio drama for BBC Radio 4, and won both the Bridport Prize and the Edge Hill prize for short fiction. His latest poetry collection (''Visibility: New and Selected Poems'' ), was published by Seren in 2007. The (''Guardian Review of Books'' ) comments that it "perfectly exhibits the blend of formal scrupulousness, sensory evocation and intellectual rigour that has shaped his reputation".〔 He received a major Eric Gregory award from the Society of Authors for his first collection of poems, ''A Country on Fire'', and ''Circular Breathing'' was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Graham won the 2007 Bridport International Short Story Prize,〔("Bridport International Short Story Prize 2007 Winners" )〕 for his story "The Prince". His first collection of short fiction, ''Touch'', was published by Seren in 2010 and won the Edge Hill Prize in 2011.〔("Poet scoops Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2011" ), Edge Hill University, 8 July 2011.〕 ==Biography== Graham was born in Lancashire and studied English at Liverpool University. He worked as a mill labourer, dairy operative and psychiatric nurse before training as a teacher. He taught in schools, colleges, prisons, special education and psychiatric units before becoming a freelance writer. He gained a doctorate from the University of Glamorgan and is a Distance Learning and eLearning specialist. He has been the Director of Studies for the Open College of the Arts and is now Professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Literature at Lancaster University, where his academic research ranges from contemporary fiction and poetry and emergent African writing and narratives of diaspora to eLearning and literature development project design. He convenes the distance learning MA with Lee Horsley. See: (Creative Writing ) at Lancaster.〔http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/Info/lunews.nsf/I/18D4D932D215C04E8025739900350E23〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graham Mort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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