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Featured
Poets 2004
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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Jackie
Johnson
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of September 2004 Online
Competition
I
am 56 years old and started writing
poetry in 1995. I saw a poetry
competition advertised and thought 'I
can do that!'. So I did. I didn't
win but got published and that
started an erratic stream of poems. 
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Angela
Cheyne
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Angela
Cheyne
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2004
1st Prize Winner of
£3,000
I first decided at the age of thirteen that I wanted to be a poet. The former ‘Mermaid Cafe’ at Porth near Newquay in Cornwall, was the fount that saw the engendering, at seventeen of my first writings.
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Karen
Canning
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Karen
Canning
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2004
2nd Place Prize Winner of £500
Even as a child I adored poetry. My very first poetry book was
'A Child's Garden of Verse' by R L
Stevenson. The words seemed to dance inside my heart and soul.
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Catherine
A Keohane
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Catherine
A Keohane
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2004
2nd Place Prize Winner of
£500
I was born 22nd April 1964 in Merthyr Tydfil and attended Bishop Hedley High
School where, during an English comprehension exercise I wrote my first poem at the age of 14.
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Christina
Earl
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of August 2004 Online
Competition
I've
lived in Suffolk all my
life. I'm 18 years old and
have been writing poems
for many years. Writing
poems is like an escape. I
just put pen to paper and
I let the ink make its
mark. In poems it feels
like it's easier to make
myself heard.
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Gaylen Fay
Walker
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of June 2004 Online
Competition
II live in the
mist of the everlasting mountains
near Salt Lake City, Utah. I am a
world traveler thanks to the U. S.
Navy and the Utah Air National
Guard. I met my wife, Nannette,
while serving on the USS Los Alamos
at the American submarine base in
Holy Loch Scotland.
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Ricky
Lock
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Ricky
Lock
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
May 2004 Online
Competition and Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2004 4th Place Prize Winner of
£100
I am 43 years of age and live in Old Bexley village, Kent. I am a
Psychosynthesis counsellor and a registered healer.
I love to work with people and help them to open up to more of themselves.
I have always been interested in poetry especially the war poets, Owen,
Sassoon and Brooks.
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Susan
Andrews
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Susan
Andrews
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
March 2004 Online
Competition
I have
only been writing poetry
for 18 months, this
coincided with the birth
of my beautiful baby girl,
and studying ‘A’ level
English Lit, where I was
introduced to Sylvia Plath
and Four Women Poets, the
two combined helped me to
re-discover my inner
emotions...
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Robert
Chapman
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Robert
Chapman
A
Featured Poet from Poetry
Now Magazine
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Robert Chapman and I have been writing poetry for thirty-five years. I first took an interest in poetry around 1967 when, at school, some of us were invited by a teacher to try our hand at writing limericks.
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John
Robinson
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
February 2004 Online
Competition
I live in deepest Northumberland where I've spent most of my life as it's the best place on earth! I'm divorced and live with my two children who are still at school and are the best things in my life. My ambition is to live on Holy Island and to write meaningless literature for the rest of my life!
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Tony
Bush
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of
January 2004 Online
Competition
I am
42 years of age and work
as a qualified
psychiatric nurse in
South Wales. Married
with two children, a
cat, a dog and five
chickens, I live on the
side of a mountain
overlooking the village
of Crickhowell in Powys.
I have been a prolific
writer of poetry for
more years than I care
to remember…
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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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