Stephen Knight

Staff details

Position

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

s.knight (@gold.ac.uk)

Stephen has research interests in creative writing and is a published writer of poetry and fiction.

Stephen was born in Swansea, read English at Oxford, then studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to become a freelance director. He has worked for over thirty-five years as a creative-writing tutor in schools, colleges, The City Lit, the University of South Wales and Goldsmiths. In 1987 he received an Eric Gregory Award and in 1992 won the National Poetry Competition. He is the author of five books of poetry – Flowering Limbs, a Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize; Dream City Cinema, also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; The Prince of Wails; Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge; and, for younger readers, Sardines and Other Poems – as well as two pamphlets written in a phonetic version of a Swansea accent: The Sandfields Baudelaire and A Swansea Love Song. His novel, Mr Schnitzel, won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year in 2001. He and has been a judge of several book awards including the T S Eliot Prize.

Academic qualifications

  • BA English Language & Literature, Oxford 1981

Research interests

Creative writing: poetry, fiction, life writing.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Knight, Stephen E.. 2020. Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge. London: CB editions. ISBN 9781909585317

Knight, Stephen E.. 2017. A Swansea Love Song. Sheffield: Smith/Doorstop Books. ISBN 9781910367773

Knight, Stephen E.. 2012. The Prince of Wails. London: CB editions. ISBN 9780956735966

Book Section

Knight, Stephen E.. 2023. Port Talbot/The Heart of Saturday Night/At the Foot of Division Four/A Swansea Adolescence/In This Dream of Swansea. In: Mike Jenkins, ed. Yer Ower Voices!: Dialect Poems in Welsh and English from Cymru. Newcastle: Culture Matters, pp. 27-34. ISBN 9781912710546

Knight, Stephen E.. 2020. My Father's Father's News [Poem]. In: Paul Munden; Alvin Pang and Shane Strange, eds. No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast. Watson, ACT, Australia: Recent Work Press, pp. 27-34. ISBN 9780648685388

Article

Knight, Stephen E.. 2023. Memoirs of the Rhondda. The Times Literary Supplement(6295), p. 25. ISSN 0307-661X

Knight, Stephen E.. 2023. All That You Can't Leave Behind. Literary Review(519), p. 48. ISSN 0144-4360

Knight, Stephen E.. 2023. Home Truths. Literary Review(515), p. 49. ISSN 0144-4360

Other

Knight, Stephen E.. 2022. At the Replica Bus Stop [Poem]. Literary Review, Issue 512, Page 54, London.

Knight, Stephen E.. 2020. A Powim [Poem]. Literary Review, Issue 491, Page 52, London.

Knight, Stephen E.. 2020. Ho Ho He He Ha Ha [Poem]. The North, Issue 63, Sheffield.