Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Born
Essex, England
EducationRoyal Holloway, University of London
OccupationPoet
Notable workQuiet (2022)
AwardsFolio Prize;
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet.[1] Her debut poetry book Quiet (2022) won the Rathbones Folio Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2023.[2][3]

Early life and education

Bulley is of Ghanaian heritage, born and brought up in Essex, England. In 2019, she was awarded a Techne[4] scholarship for doctoral work at Royal Holloway, University of London.[1]

An alumna of The Complete Works poetry mentoring programme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo, Bulley has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil, and at the V&A.[1]

Writing

Bulley's writing has been published in Granta,[5] The Guardian,[6] and The White Review,[7] as well as in anthologies, including Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry[8] (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN 9781910959374) and Ten: Poets of the New Generation, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN 9781780373829).[9]

She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues.[10][11]

Bulley's 2017 debut pamphlet Girl B was published by Akashic Books and included in the collection New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, edited by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes (ISBN 9781617755408).[12] Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut".[13]

Bulley's first book collection, Quiet (2022), was praised in The Times Literary Supplement for containing "clever and capacious poems"[14] and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent".[15] Quiet was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.[16][17]

Awards and recognition

Year Book Award Category Result Ref
2018 — Eric Gregory Award — Won [18]
2022 Quiet T. S. Eliot Prize — Shortlisted [19]
2023 Folio Prize Poetry Won [20]
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize — Won [21]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b c "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley Wins the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry". The Poetry Society. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins Pollard International Poetry Prize". Aitken Alexander Associates. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership". www.techne.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. ^ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (31 May 2022). "Three Poems". Granta. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  6. ^ Rumens, Carol (6 June 2022). "Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The White Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry". The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Ten: Poets of the New Generation". Bloodaxe Books.
  10. ^ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (Autumn 2017). "Report: Seven Thousand Songs". The Poetry Review. 107 (3). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  11. ^ "Mother Tongues". Lagos International Poetry Festival. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  12. ^ "New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)". Akashic Books. 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Girl B – African Poetry Book Fund". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". TLS. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  15. ^ Dastidar, Rishi (3 June 2022). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  16. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins Pollard International Poetry Prize". Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin. 3 May 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  17. ^ Ghosh, Kuhelika (27 March 2023). "Victoria Adukwei Bulley Wins the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  18. ^ "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners: 2018". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  19. ^ Shaffi, Sarah (13 October 2022). "TS Eliot prize announces a 'shapeshifting' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  20. ^ "De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize". Books+Publishing. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  21. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins 2023 Pollard International Poetry Prize". BookBrunch. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
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