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] Her debut poetry book Quiet (2022) won the Rathbones Folio Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2023. [2] [3]

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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 [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

YearBookAwardCategoryResultRef
2018— Eric Gregory Award —Won [18]
2022Quiet T. S. Eliot Prize —Shortlisted [19]
2023 Folio Prize PoetryWon [20]
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize —Won [21]

Selected publications

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  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.
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