Victoria Adukwei Bulley | |
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Born | Essex, England |
Education | Royal Holloway, University of London |
Occupation | Poet |
Notable work | Quiet (2022) |
Awards | Folio Prize; John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize |
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet. [1]
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]
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 Times Literary Supplement as "clever and capacious poems" [10] and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent". [11]
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]
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