11th December, 2015

Paul Henry Receives Creative Wales Award

The Arts Council of Wales has announced the 15 recipients of the Creative Wales Award 2015-16, with poet Paul Henry being among those chosen.
The Creative Wales Awards, presented at an event held at The Depot, Cardiff on Thursday 10 December, recognise the very best talent and potential of individual Welsh artists applying annually for this development opportunity.
Paul Henry will use his Award to work with a sound recordist, a songwriter and a scriptwriter to develop the music idiom of his voice inspired by the wild-life and people who inhabit the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal.
You can see the full list of award-winners here.
Described by the late U.A. Fanthorpe as ‘a poet’s poet’ who combines ‘a sense of the music of words with an endlessly inventive imagination’, Paul Henry came to poetry through songwriting. His new and selected poems, The Brittle Sea, appeared in 2010. This was followed in 2012 by its Indian version, The Black Guitar. A regular reader and performer at festivals, he has recently written and presented arts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. His latest collection, Boy Running, was published in February 2015.