Victoria Adukwei Bulley

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

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet. [1]

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Early life and education

Bulley is of Ghanaian heritage, born and brought up in Essex, England. In 2019, she was awarded a Techne [2] 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 works including Rising stars : new young voices in poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN   9781910959374), Ten: poets of the new generation (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN   9781780373829), Granta , [3] The Guardian , [4] and The White Review . [5]

She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues. [6] [7]

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 ( ISBN   9781617755408). [8] Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut". [9]

Her first book collection, Quiet (2022), was praised in the TLS as "clever and capacious poems". [10] and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent". [11]

Recognition

Bulley won a 2018 Eric Gregory Award. [12]

Quiet was shortlisted for the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize [13] and won the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry. [14] Bulley also won the 2023 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for Quiet. [15]

Selected publications

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References

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  2. ↑ "Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership". www.techne.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (31 May 2022). "Three Poems". Granta. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Rumens, Carol (6 June 2022). "Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. ↑ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The White Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (Autumn 2017). "Report: Seven Thousand Songs". The Poetry Review. 107 (3). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Mother Tongues". Lagos International Poetry Festival. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)". Akashic Books. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "Girl B – African Poetry Book Fund". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  10. ↑ "Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". TLS. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  11. ↑ Dastidar, Rishi (3 June 2022). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  12. ↑ "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners: 2018". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  13. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (13 October 2022). "TS Eliot prize announces a 'shapeshifting' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  14. ↑ "De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize". Books+Publishing. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  15. ↑ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins 2023 Pollard International Poetry Prize". BookBrunch. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
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