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Tom Phillips: Bibliography
Theatre
Coastal Defences (Theatre West, Bristol, October 2014)
The Railway Children (adaptation, Ship & Castle, Bristol, March 2014)
Deeds Not Words (Ship & Castle, Bristol, Nov 2013)
One Hundred Miles North of Timbuktu (full-length version) (Theatre West, Alma
Tavern, Bristol, Oct 2013)
Prella’s Gift (Show of Strength, Bristol, Dec 2012)
One Hundred Miles North of Timbuktu (short version) (Theatre West, Alma Tavern,
Bristol, Nov 2012)
I Went To Albania (Ferment, Bristol Old Vic, Jan 2012)
Samuel Mapping the Dead (Future Cemetery Project, Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol,
2012)
Man Diving (rehearsed reading, Ustinov Studio, Bath, 2011)
The Three Musketeers (adaptation, Ship & Castle, Bristol, 2011)
The Few (Ship & Castle, Bristol, 2010)
Man Diving (rehearsed reading, The Push project, Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010)
Arbeit Macht Frei (Ship & Castle, Bristol, 2009)
Rose’s Last Laugh (Show of Strength, Bristol, 2008 & 2012)
Beware of the Flowers (48 Hour Plays project, Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2009)
Hotel Illyria (Script Space, Tobacco Factory, 2008)
Gridlock: a radio soap (2006, BBC Radio Bristol, 2006)
Concorde Stories (Victoria Rooms, Bristol, 2003)
Jubilation: 50 years of Bristol (Colston Hall, Bristol, 2002)
Closer To You: 30 years of BBC Radio Bristol (St George’s Bristol, 2001)
Closing Ranks (Kingswood Hexagon, 2000)

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Poetry
Recreation Ground (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2012): full-length collection
Reversing into the Cold War (Firewater Press/Poetry Monthly, 2007): pamphlet
Burning Omaha (Firewater Press, 2002): pamphlet
Her Days Among Flowers (1988): song-cycle with composer Barry Russell for
Michael Tippett Centre, Bath
Poems have also appeared in a wide variety of magazines including Numbers, Novy
Vilag (Budapest), Jeta E Re (Prishtina), Echo Room, Brando’s Hat, Iota, Purple
Patch, Envoi, Poetry Scotland, Various Artists etc, and anthologies: Short Fuse, 100
Poets Against The War, In The Criminal’s Cabinet, Babylon Burning, Bristol Slam
Poetry, City (Poems for Bristol), Gingha Ink Vol 1.
Regular poetry performances at venues/events including Bristol Festival of Literature,
Reading Poetry Festival, Alchemy (Prague), Oxford Brookes University, University
of Portsmouth, Word of Mouth (Bristol), Arnolfini, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol Poetry
Slam, Second Tuesday, Ashton Court Festival (also compere, Performing Arts Stage),
Avon Poetry Festival, Big Mouth Cabaret, St James’ Wine Vaults.
Fiction
Nicholas – The Stolen Reindeer illustrated by Marina Shiderova (x-ovation Bulgaria,
2014): children’s fiction/app
Short fiction published in Critical Quarterly and Signals (London magazine
anthology) and broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol.
Journalism/other writing
‘Western Balkans, Western Europe: Barriers to Cross-Cultural Encounter’ in An
Agenda for the Western Balkans (Interalia, forthcoming 2014)
‘Through Ottoman Europe’ in Levant Tales, ed. Tom Sykes & Steven O’Brien
(London Magazine/Travel Writers’ Guild/University of Portsmouth, forthcoming
2014)
‘Translating besa: encounters with complex cultural phenomena’, paper for Balkans
in Contemporary Travel Writing conference (University of Nikšić, Montenegro,
2014)
‘The construction of an Albanian identity in English language travel writing since
1945’ (papers of the XXXII International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature
and Culture, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 2013)

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Not Nearly So Far: Three Journeys in SE Europe with Encountering Problems:
Conceptualisations of Culture in post-war English-language travel writing on
Albania (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Reading, 2013)
‘There are avenues, aren’t there?’ Interview with poet Peter Robinson published in
Talk About Poetry (Shearsman, 2006).
Reviews, features and interviews published in The Guardian, Contemporary Review,
Tribune, Venue, Folio, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol 24/7 etc.