Simon Mundy

Simon Mundy has written three previous books of poems and three novels (two under the pen name James Eno). He has also written several biographies of classical musicians including Elgar, Purcell and Tchaikovsky. He has directed festivals in Scotland and Holland and broadcast for over thirty years on BBC Radio 3 and 4. He collaborates as a poet with musicians, visual artists and dancers, and has read his work all over the world from the Hay Festival to Novosibirsk and Bergen to Brisbane. He was...See more

Simon Mundy has written three previous books of poems and three novels (two under the pen name James Eno). He has also written several biographies of classical musicians including Elgar, Purcell and Tchaikovsky. He has directed festivals in Scotland and Holland and broadcast for over thirty years on BBC Radio 3 and 4. He collaborates as a poet with musicians, visual artists and dancers, and has read his work all over the world from the Hay Festival to Novosibirsk and Bergen to Brisbane. He was the founder of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (now Culture Action Europe) and advises UNESCO and the Council of Europe. He has been a Trustee and director of many arts organisations in Britain and Europe and has lived in the border hills of Wales since 1982. See less