Damian Walford Davies’ poetry collections: Suit of Lights (2009) (selected for Wales Literature Exchange’s Autumn Bookcase), Witch (2012) Judas (2015), and Docklands: A Ghost Story (2019) have been well-received critically. He is a librettist – see A Mare’s Tale: a libretto (Grey Mare), and a translator, and he is a Cymraeg speaker. He is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He served as Chair of Literature Wales from 2012 to 2018, and from 2015 to 2018 was Chair of the Board of Cardiff University Press. He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He has given a TEDX talk on ‘Cycling, Creativity, and Commercialism’ in which he discusses the language of cycling!
Inspired by the lyrical, mythic mode of Italian sports journalism from the 1930s to the 1950s, Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914—2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938, 1948), known both as 'Gino the Pious' because...
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