Catulla et al

'Catulla Et Al' summons up the sensual and the scandalous spirit of the Latin poet Catullus - his lyricism, diatribe and and bawdy - by turns wrenching, cynical and outrageous.

Tiffany Atkinson was born in Berlin into an army family and has lived in Wales for many years. She is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, and edited The Body: A Reader (Palgrave 2004). She has toured widely in Eastern Europe for the British Council, leading both writers' workshops and academic seminars, as well as giving many readings throughout Britain. She won the Cardiff Academi International Poetry Competition in 2001. Her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. Catulla et al (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) is her second collection.