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Chris Torrance

Biography

Chris Torrance was born in Edinburgh in 1941 and grew up in London.  He moved to rural Wales in 1970 and taught creative writing at Cardiff University.  His work has been included in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969), Conductors of Chaos (1996) and Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999). His major work is the ongoing Magic Door sequence, of which seven books have been published to date.

Recordings

Heat Poets

This recording of the Heat Poets, Chris Torrance and Chris Vine, was published as RORI: A Book of the Boundaries/  It was recorded in the Vale of Mercury, Wales and the Vale of Ruby, Brazil in 2008-2010.  Wesley Ribeiro plays drums on Taliesin and Ian McDonald contributed illustrations to the book which accompanies the CD.  For more information on the project contact cannapandv@tiscali.co.uk.

  • From this place
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  • The smooth water gliding
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  • Vaynor
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  • Rori meets Kiri
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  • Catmint, rosemary and silverweed
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  • Taliesin at the console
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  • Each shift of air
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  • Take shapes from nature
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Bibliography

  • Torrance, Chris (1968), Green orange purple red, and other poems, London, Ferry Press; cover drawing by David Jenkins, ISBN 978-0-900851-01-8
  • Torrance, Chris (1969), Aries under Saturn and beyond, London, Ferry Press, ISBN 978-0-900851-22-3
  • Torrance, Chris; Torrance, Val (1973) Acrospirical Meanderings in a Tongue of the Time, London, Albion Village Press
  • Torrance, Chris; Torrance, Val (1975), The magic door : a cycle. Book 1, London, Albion Village Press, OCLC 60053688
  • Torrance, Chris (1975), Mirages : a chronicle - September 1975, Neath Abbey, OCLC 12336536
  • Torrance, Chris; Torrance, Val (1976), The Florentine sonnets, Neath, Cwm Nedd Press, OCLC 15127215
  • Citrinas (The Magic Door, Book 2) (1977), London, Albion Village Press
  • The Rainbringer (1977), Newcastle upon Tyne, Pig Press; 2nd revised edition, 1978. ISBN 0-903997-38-X
  • Heat Sonnets (1979), Newcastle upon Tyne, Pig Press. ISBN 0-903977-42-7
  • The diary of Palug's Cat (The Magic Door, Book 3) (1980), Newcastle upon Tyne, Galloping Dog Press', ISBN 0-904837-24-6; also Swansea, Stone Lantern Audiobook on tape oclc=20672978
  • The Cloud Book, Neath, Cwm Nedd Press, 1980, OCLC 9107523
  • The Book of Brychan (The Magic Door, Book 4) (1982), Newcastle upon Tyne, Galloping Dog Press; illustrations and cover design by Robin Campbell
  • Cylinder Fragments of the Twentieth Century (1982), Neath, Cwm Nedd Press, ISBN 978-0-906244-12-8
  • The Slim Book/Wet Pulp (The Magic Door, Book. 5) (1986), Swansea, Stone Lantern Press
  • Southerly Vector/The Book Of Heat - Further Books of the Magic Door (1996), Neath, Cwm Nedd Press, ISBN 0-906244-27-7
  • The Book of Heat CD, Chris Torrance-Words, Chris Vine-Music(1998), Innerstar; rerelease 2003
  • Wobbly Chair (2003), Dinas Powys, Canna Press
  • Frinite CD, Chris Torrance-Words, Chris Vine-Music (2004) Dinas Powys, Canna Press
  • Hare Pie, card designed by Deidre Farrell (2007), signed by artist and author, Dinas Powys, Canna Press

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