Norman Schwenk (1935-2023) was a writer and teacher from Nebraska, USA who lived and worked in Cardiff, Wales from the mid-sixties after a period as a Fulbright Scholar in Stockholm, Sweden. He was widely published in magazines and anthologies and produced several collections of poetry. In 2004 he co-edited, with Anne Cluysenaar, an anthology of poems about St Melangell, The Hare that Hides Within, which won an award as a Welsh Books Council poetry best-seller. In 2005 he published The More Deceived: Poems about Love and Lovers; in 2010, Cadillac Temple: Haiku Sequences; and in 2015, Book of Songs, a collection of song lyrics.
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