George Ttoouli

Biography
George Ttoouli was born in London in 1979 to Greek parents. An Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Warwick Writing Programme, he co-founded the Heaventree Press in 2002, has worked in the education team at the Poetry Society, and co-edits poetry blogzine, Gists & Piths. He now lives in Coventry. In 2004 he received a Jerwood-Arvon Young Writing Apprenticeship to work on a novel, which he still hasn’t abandoned.

STATIC EXILE (PENNED IN THE MARGINS)

 * Dr Fulminare's Queftionable Arts -- Paul Celan's carefully tended inner world of half-thoughts and after-images would appear contrived were it mixed in with nature sonnets, and so too is it difficult to reconcile some of Ttoouli's more extravagant word-juggling with other poems which are so successfully mainstream, so cunningly connected to the world we recognise.
 * Polyolbion -- Ttoouli's Greek heritage is a strong strand running through the collection, with myths reworked, and a strong sense of past and present existing alongside each other.