Duncan Bush (6 April 1946 – 18 August 2017)[1] was a Welsh poet, novelist, dramatist (for film, TV, radio and stage), translator and documentary writer.
[3] His collections Aquarium and Salt were awarded the Welsh Arts Council Prize for Poetry in 1984 and 1986 respectively – both republished in a single volume The Hook (Seren Books).
His 1995 collection, Masks, was a Poetry Society recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year award for an English-language work.
He published three novels: The Genre of Silence (Seren, 1987) is set in the USSR during the Civil War; a psychological thriller, Glass Shot (Secker & Warburg hardback 1991; Mandarin paperback, 1993), takes place during the 1985-6 Miners’ Strike; and Now All The Rage (Colophon, 2007) unfolds in an obsessive imaginative borderland between fame and obscurity.
[4] Duncan Bush taught at various schools, colleges and universities in Great Britain, continental Europe and the USA.