Glyn Wright’s debut collection, Could Have Been Funny (Spike, 1995), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize, was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Could Have Been Funny was subsequently made available through Bloodaxe Books to coincide with the publication of his second collection, Shindig (Bloodaxe, 1997). Wright performed widely and led workshops in schools and community venues of all kinds. In 1999 he was Writer in Residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Suffolk and acted as one of the mentors on the Writers’ Attachment Scheme. His work featured in Three Contemporary Poets (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997) as part of a new course of language and literature covering all National Curriculum requirements for GCSE and Standard Grade. Ian McMillan wrote that his work has ‘linguistic depth as well as oral felicity, and he’s created a kind of plain language that sings’.
