[1] He taught English in secondary schools in Cheshire and Yorkshire before returning to Wales to a lecturing post.
Tony Curtis's book debut was in Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974), published by the Welsh Arts Council, in which he featured together with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins.
Though in 1972 he had been included in the Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Series from Peterloo Press - Walk Down a Welsh Wind.
Also, in 2016, in conjunction with the Welsh-language poet Grahame Davies, he wrote poems to commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.
In 2017 Cinnamon Press published his selected Stories: 'Some Kind of Immortality In 2023 his novel “Darkness in the City of Light” (2021) was short-listed for the Paul Torday Prize awarded by the Society of Authors.