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 Granta , [3] The Guardian , [4] and The White Review , [5] as well as in collection or anthology works, including Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN   9781910959374) and Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN   9781780373829).

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 Times Literary Supplement for containing "clever and capacious poems" [10] and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent". [11]

Recognition

YearBookAwardCategoryResultRef
2018 Eric Gregory Award Won [12]
2022Quiet T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted [13]
2023 Folio Prize PoetryWon [14]
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize Won [15]

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