Ric Hool has 11 collections of published poetry and has his work featured in poetry magazines & journals in Europe, USA & UK.
He was the Welsh Academy poet for the Abergavenny Food Festival 2009, also Academy poet representative for the London South Bank London Global Poetry System 2009 and has run the reading series Poetry Upstairs in Abergavenny for 30 years.
The first publication of Last Fair Deal Gone Down, a docu-story conflating the lives of the author, seminal blues singer/guitarist Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, was published in Fulcrum No. 6 (Annual of Poetry & Aesthetics) USA.
His poetic themes are the psychological and geographical impact of place, time and space on the human experience. Water is a totem, poured from place to place and from experience to experience: an agent of informing.
Ric Hool is from Northumberland but lives in Wales.
Selected Publications:
Fitting in with Malcolm (WYSIWYG Chapbooks, 1994), Making It (Collective Press, 1998), The Bridge (Collective Press, 2000), Voice from a Correspondent (Collective Press, 2001),
No Nothing (The Collective Press, 2009), Selected Poems (Red Squirrel Press 2013), A Way of Falling Upwards (Cinnamon Press 2014), Hut (Woodenhead Press pamphlet 2016),
Between So Many Words (Red Squirrel Press May 2016), Personal Archaeology (Red Squirrel Press September 2021), Containing Multitudes (One Hand Waving Press 2022), Since I Last Wrote (Red Squirrel Press 2023), What the Sand Didn’t Tell The Moon: short stories (Red Squirrel Press 2024)
Anthologies:
Tilt (Collective Press, 1996) By Grand Central Station We Sat Down & Wept (Red Squirrel Press 2010) Double Bill (Red Squirrel Press 2014), At Time’s Edge (The Vaughan Association 2016), Poems from Snowdon (Seren 2019), Poems from The Borders (Seren 2019), Uprising (Culture Matters 2022)
Music:
Still Breathers: music CD (2024 All Out Music)
