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Featured
Poets 2003
This
section aims to showcase poets
by presenting a selection of
their work and a biography
based on their writing career.
If you
would like to be a Featured
Poet on the website, please
submit a biography with a
photograph and a small
selection of your poems.
Submission
Guidelines 
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Adrian
Salamon
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
November 2003 Online
Competition
I'm
Adrian and 22 Years old
born in Wisbech, Cambs but
now living in Whitehaven,
Cumbria with my
girlfriend. I first
started writing poetry
while I was at university
in Hull. I never really
thought that any was good
and still am my own worse
critic. 
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Mary
Wood
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Mary
Wood
Mary
Wood is a prolific
writer of humorous
rhyming verse and
says she’s
eternally grateful
to Forward Press
for setting her on
her way to
publishing success
far beyond her own
expectation.
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Paul
Dawson
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
October 2003 Online
Competition
I am 24 years old
and I have been writing poetry since I
was about eleven, I remember the first
poem I wrote was about my mum. In my
English class in school we had to
write a poem about anything we wanted
just as long as it rhymed, that’s
when I first realised that I had a
natural ability to write words into
rhyme.
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Jacqui
Thornton
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
September 2003 Online
Competition
I am a Mum of 4
from South Wales. I have only recently
started writing again after a gap of
12 years, in which time I have been
raising my family. When my youngest
child started school last year I
needed something to do to fill the
time and started writing again.
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George
Coombs
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George
Coombs
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award 2003
1st Prize Winner of
£3,000
George Coombs is an associate lecturer with The Open University and also a qualified Aromatherapist with a small practice in Sussex. His winning poem, ‘White Flowers’ was originally published in the
Poetry Now anthology ‘Someone Special’.
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M.
M Graham
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
August 2003 Online
Competition
I started writing
poetry in June 2002. I wrote one poem,
titled - Just a girl. It was meant to
be a one-off thing, just a bit of text
to fill a space on a graphics web page
I was making. I had no plans to ever
write again and I didn't expect anyone
to actually read it, much less like
it!
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Donna
Rimer
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
July 2003 Online
Competition
A dreamer by nature, I have written poems since childhood, as a means of both expression and escapism. It was only earlier this year however, that I overcame my lack of self confidence in my writing ability and showed some poems to a friend.
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John
G Hall
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
June 2003 Online
Competition
My poetry
writing was born of the
1970's, drawing mostly on
hormones and Rock. Poetry set
to music. Later I found out
that some poets relied on the
music that words made. Then I
read William Blake and nothing
was ever the same again.
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Candice-Leigh
Johnstone
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
May 2003 Online
Competition
I
have always loved the
written word. I learned
to read and write by the
age of only four and
since then, have enjoyed
spending more time
reading books than doing
pretty-much anything
else.
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Luthien
Lark
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
April 2003 Online
Competition and Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2004 5th Place Prize Winner of
£50
... I was fortunate enough to
grow up in the countryside, where I
was able to wander freely and to
discover nature, without much
restriction. I think I have drawn much
of my inspiration from this.
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Valerie
McKinley
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Valerie
McKinley
A
Featured Poet from Poetry
Now Magazine
I was born in Leicestershire in 1943. I live very happily with the kindest man I've ever met and who has become the love of my life, my second husband Mac. We live in the pretty village of
Allington, which is situated in the lovely vale of Belvoir on the Lincolnshire/Leicestershire
border.
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Nigel
Astell
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Nigel
Astell
A
Featured Poet from Poetry
Now Magazine
Vital descriptive words can produce a picture to build different views to take each person on a journey into the world of literacy.
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Jan
Challis Miller
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Jan
Challis Miller
A
Featured Poet from Poetry
Now Magazine
I was
born in 1941 and have been
writing for as long as I
can remember.
When I
retired I was able to
concentrate on my hobby
and I have been fortunate
enough to have stories and
articles accepted for
women's magazines and also
specialist magazines.
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Keith
Thomas
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Keith
Thomas
A
Featured Poet from Poetry
Now Magazine
According
to my dear mother and
confirmed by my father,
I was found under a
gooseberry bush in
February 1951 in Welwyn
Garden City. (Not that I
believe them! I know I'm
really only 21.)
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Submission Guidelines:
Poems of no more than 30 lines in length each will be
considered.
Post your poems to
Featured Poets, Forward Press Ltd,
Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Peterborough PE2 9JX (Write your name and
address on each piece of work you send)
Or email your poems to inbox@forwardpress.co.uk
(Enter Featured Poets in the subject line, including your name and
postal address)
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