{"id":8157,"date":"2025-03-11T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8157"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:22:39","slug":"susan-wicks-2","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/susan-wicks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Wicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Wicks has published eight collections of poetry, five of them with Bloodaxe Books: <em>Dear Crane<\/em> (2021), <i>The Months<\/i> (2016), <i>House of Tongues<\/i> (2011), <i>De-iced<\/i> (2007) and <i>Night Toad: New &amp; Selected Poems <\/i>(2003), which includes a selection from three earlier books published by Faber &amp; Faber: <i>Singing Underwater,<\/i> winner of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize; <i>Open Diagnosis<\/i>, which was one of the Poetry Society\u2019s New Generation Poets titles; and <i>The Clever Daughter<\/i>, a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for both T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. <i><em>The Months, <\/em>House of Tongues<\/i>, <i>Night Toad<\/i> and<i> Singing Underwater<\/i> are all Poetry Book Society Recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>She has also published three novels, <i>The Key<\/i> (Faber, 1997), <i>Little Thing<\/i> (Faber &amp; Faber, 1998) and <i>A Place to Stop<\/i> (Salt, 2012), a short memoir, <i>Driving My Father<\/i> (Faber, 1995), and a collection of short fiction, <i>Roll Up for the Arabian Derby<\/i> (Bluechrome, 2008). Her two book-length translations of the French poet Val\u00e9rie Rouzeau, <i>Cold Spring in Winter<\/i> (Arc, 2009) and <i>Talking Vrouz<\/i> (Arc, 2013) have between them won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from French and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation, and been shortlisted for the International Griffin Prize for Poetry. In 2021 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. She lives in Kent.\u00a0<em>Author photo \u00a9 Joanna Eldredge Morrissey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Susan Wicks is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/\">Bloodaxe Books<\/a> website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Wicks has published eight collections of poetry, five of them with Bloodaxe Books: Dear Crane (2021), The Months (2016), House of Tongues (2011), De-iced (2007) and Night Toad: New &amp; Selected Poems (2003), which includes a selection from three earlier books published by Faber &amp; Faber: Singing Underwater, winner of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10871,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8157","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}