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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Born
Essex, England
EducationRoyal Holloway, University of London
OccupationPoet
Notable workQuiet (2022)
AwardsFolio Prize;
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet.[1]

Early life and education

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Bulley is of Ghanaian heritage, born and brought up in Essex, England. In 2019, she was awarded a Techne[2] 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

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Bulley's writing has been published in Granta,[3] The Guardian,[4] and The White Review,[5] as well as in collection or anthology works, including Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN 9781910959374) and Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN 9781780373829).

She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues.[6][7]

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 (ISBN 9781617755408).[8] Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut".[9]

Her first book collection, Quiet (2022), was praised in The Times Literary Supplement for containing "clever and capacious poems"[10] and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent".[11]

Recognition

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Year Book Award Category Result Ref
2018 — Eric Gregory Award — Won [12]
2022 Quiet T. S. Eliot Prize — Shortlisted [13]
2023 Folio Prize Poetry Won [14]
John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize — Won [15]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership". www.techne.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  3. ^ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (31 May 2022). "Three Poems". Granta. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  4. ^ Rumens, Carol (6 June 2022). "Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The White Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  6. ^ Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (Autumn 2017). "Report: Seven Thousand Songs". The Poetry Review. 107 (3). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Mother Tongues". Lagos International Poetry Festival. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  8. ^ "New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)". Akashic Books. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Girl B – African Poetry Book Fund". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". TLS. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  11. ^ Dastidar, Rishi (3 June 2022). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners: 2018". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  13. ^ Shaffi, Sarah (13 October 2022). "TS Eliot prize announces a 'shapeshifting' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  14. ^ "De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize". Books+Publishing. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  15. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins 2023 Pollard International Poetry Prize". BookBrunch. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
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