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Biography
Victoria Adukwei Bulleyis a British-born Ghanaian poet.
Early life and education
Bulley is of Ghanaian heritage, born and brought up in Essex, England.In 2019 she was awarded a Techne scholarship for doctoral work at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Writing
Her debut pamphlet Girl B was published by Akashic Books and included in the collection New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (ISBN 9781617755408).Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut".
Her first book collection Quiet (2022) was praised in the TLS as "clever and capacious poems". and described in The Guardian as "mark[ing] the arrival of a major poetic talent".
Her writing has been published in works including Rising stars : new young voices in poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN 9781910959374), Ten: poets of the new generation (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN 9781780373829),Granta, The Guardian, and The White Review.
She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues.
Recognition
Bulley won a 2018 Eric Gregory Award.
Quiet was shortlisted for the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry. Bulley also won the 2023 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for Quiet.
Selected publications
- Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (2022). Quiet. Faber. ISBN 9780571370337.
