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Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet. Her debut poetry book Quiet (2022) won the Rathbones Folio Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2023.

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.

An alumna of The Complete Works poetry mentoring programme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo, Bulley has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil, and at the V&A.

Writing

Bulley's writing has been published in Granta, The Guardian, and The White Review, as well as in anthologies, including Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry (Otter-Barry Books, 2017, ISBN 9781910959374) and Ten: Poets of the New Generation, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Bloodaxe Books, 2017, ISBN 9781780373829).

She produced the Mother Tongues intergenerational project, in which poets worked with their mothers to translate their poetry into their mother-tongues.

Bulley's 2017 debut pamphlet Girl B was published by Akashic Books and included in the collection New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, edited by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes (ISBN 9781617755408). Karen McCarthy Woolf called it "a probing, thoughtful, and quietly exhilarating debut".

Bulley's first book collection, Quiet (2022), was praised in The Times Literary Supplement for containing "clever and capacious poems" and described in The Guardian as "mark the arrival of a major poetic talent". Quiet was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the 2023 Folio Prize for poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.

Awards and recognition

Selected publications

• Girl B. Akaschic Books. 2017
• Quiet. Faber. 2022. ISBN 9780571370337.

References

1. ^ "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
2. "Victoria Adukwei Bulley Wins the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry". The Poetry Society. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
3. "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins Pollard International Poetry Prize". Aitken Alexander Associates. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
4. "Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership". www.techne.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
5. Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (31 May 2022). "Three Poems". Granta. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
6. Rumens, Carol (6 June 2022). "Poem of the week: Air by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
7. "Victoria Adukwei Bulley". The White Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
8. "Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry". The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
9. "Ten: Poets of the New Generation". Bloodaxe Books.
10. Bulley, Victoria Adukwei (Autumn 2017). "Report: Seven Thousand Songs". The Poetry Review. 107 (3). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
11. "Mother Tongues". Lagos International Poetry Festival. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
12. "New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)". Akashic Books. 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
13. "Girl B – African Poetry Book Fund". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
14. "Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley". TLS. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
15. Dastidar, Rishi (3 June 2022). "The best recent poetry – review roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
16. "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins Pollard International Poetry Prize". Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin. 3 May 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
17. Ghosh, Kuhelika (27 March 2023). "Victoria Adukwei Bulley Wins the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
18. "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners: 2018". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
19. Shaffi, Sarah (13 October 2022). "TS Eliot prize announces a 'shapeshifting' shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
20. "De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize". Books+Publishing. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
21. "Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins 2023 Pollard International Poetry Prize". BookBrunch. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.

External links

• Author profile on Faber website.
• Christopher Cox, "Victoria Adukwei Bulley On Feeling More 'Possible' In This World", Black Art and Design, 25 November 2021.
• Interview, 2022 with Poetry London.

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