Graham Mort is emeritus professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Literature at Lancaster University where he directed the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. He is also Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Graham was the founding chair of NAWE and led the British Council 'Crossing Borders' and 'Radiophonics' mentoring schemes for African writers. This work has taken him to Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. He is a Higher Education National Teaching Fellow). 'Visibility: New & Selected Poems' was published by Seren in 2007; he also won the Bridport prize for short fiction in 2007; his book of stories, 'Touch' (Seren, 2010) won the Edge Hill Prize for short fiction in 2011; his latest full collection of poems is 'Black Shiver Moss' (Seren, 2017) See: https://www.grahammort.com/
Poetry:
A COUNTRY ON FIRE (Littlewood 1986);
A HALIFAX CIDER JAR (Yorkshire Art Circus 1987);
INTO THE ASHES (Littlewood 1988);
SKY BURIAL (Dangaroo Press 1989);
SNOW FROM THE NORTH (Dangaroo Press 1992);
CIRCULAR BREATHING (Dangaroo Press 1997);
A NIGHT ON THE LASH (Seren, 2004)
VISIBILITY: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Seren, 2007)
CUSP (Seren, 2011)
BLACK SHIVER MOSS (Seren, 2017)
SAMARA with Claire Jefferson’s illustrations (4Word 2021)
Short story collections:
TOUCH (Seren, 2010)
TERROIR (Seren, 2015)
LIKE FADO AND OTHER STORIES (Salt, 2020)
BBC Radio Broadcasts: 'Flymowing', 'The Red Field' (Stanza), 'The Life of the Bee (Friday Play), Cuba Libre at the Cafe Espana (afternoon play).
Readings include The Voice Box, Wordsworth Trust, Cheltenham, Ledbury, Aldeburgh, Bassetlaw, Ilkley and Lancaster literature festivals as well as festivals in Uganda, Vietnam and China.