Featured
Poets 2006
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.
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Kianni
I
was born
in the
Indian
subcontinent,
brought up
in
Glasgow,
Scotland.
I spent
the
majority
of my life
trying to
understand
the world
around me,
both in
terms of
the
tragedies
and the
joys life
offers
each of
us. My
works are
inspired
by the
vast depth
of emotion
I felt
through
turbulant
times and
I feel it
is a voice
not just
for
myself,
but for
all people
who have
been in
despair at
some point
through
life.
Read
more…
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Elizabeth
Davies
I
was born
in Africa,
and spent
my
childhood
on an
African
farm. I
can
remember
really
looking at
trees and
animals
from an
early age,
and would
get into
trouble at
school
drawing
horses on
my
exercise
books! We
left
Zimbabwe
in 1984 to
pursue my
husband’s
career as
a
rehabilitation
consultant,
and have
lived in
many colourful
countries.
I have
always
managed to
paint and
write my
impressions.
Read
more…
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Joanne
Hale
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more…
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Ed
Cesar
Biography:
Ed Cesar
is a poet,
musician,
painter
and all
round
artist. He
is the
songwriter
and front
man in a
band
called The
Dusty
Stars (www.myspace.com/thedustystars)
in which
he takes
on
different
personas
and themes
to create
highly
original
music.
Read
more…
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Cervin
Morris
I
have been
writing
poetry
since I
was 12
years old.
I am from
Trinidad,
and I came
to the
U.S. when
I was 11
years old.
Poetry has
been very
dear to
me, thus
every poem
I write
seems to
help me
live
one more
day in
this
wretched
world. I
am 22
years old
now, and
quite
frankly I
could not
imagine my
life
without
poetry.
Thank you.
Read
more…
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Catherine
Gardner
Well
to start
off, I'm
Catherine
as you
probably
have
guessed
and I am
currently
a year 11
student at
school and
my very
popular
hobby is
to write
poetry and
I have
started on
a teenage
novel
which I
can relate
to people
of my age
so I
really
find an
interest
in writing
that. Read
more…
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Layla
Turner
My
name is Layla
turner I
am
nineteen
years old
and my
star signs
a Gemini
and yes I
do have a
split
personality
which I
think
helps me
to write
different
types of
poetry. Read
more…
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George
Pottinger
I
started
writing a
couple of
years ago,
mainly
song
lyrics for
the music
I’m
producing.
About a
year ago
my Dad
suggested
that a lot
of song
lyrics are
just
‘poetry
to
music’
and we
decided to
bring the
material
together
in one
place.
Thus my
book
‘The
Unsung
Songs’
came into
being!
I’ve
also
written
new
material
especially
for the
book. Read
more…
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Barbara
Sanderson
Winner
of our Top
5 Poets of October 2006
Online
Competition
My
name is
Barbara
Sanderson,
I'm 30
years old and
I live in
the north
of Cumbria
in a small
rural
town,
which
suits me
as I like
to be able
to see
fields and
trees when
I look out
of the
window. I've been
writing
poetry on
and off
since I was a wee
lass in
primary
school,
and I've
written
many poems
over the
years but
I never
submitted
any for
publication
until
recently. I live
with my soon-to-be-husband,
two dogs
and two
falcons,
one a
peregrine
the other
a saker. Read
more…
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Derek
Allsopp
I
am 38,
male,
single and
a recent
(mature) graduate
of Warwick
Uni's Film
and Lit.
degree. I
have been
involved
in over 30
local
films,
acted in
many, made
a few
myself and
am now
devoting
much of my
time to
painting,
drawing
and
printmaking
as well as
writing. Read
more…
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Gloria
Alcozer
I
was born
Gloria
Martinez
Alcozer on
the; 25 or
26 or it
could have
been
the 16th
of
September
of 1955,
there has
been some
controversy
about the
exact date
but one
thing is
sure that
I was born
and that
the year
was 1955,
in the
small
rural (at
least at
the time)
town of
Des
Plaines in
Illinois. Read
more…
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Pauline
Pickin
I
have been
writing
for as far
back as I
can
remember.
My mother
used to
tell me
that she
would buy
me paper
and
pencils
hoping
that once
I could
write I
would stop
talking
and asking
questions,
I never
did.
I have had
such wide
and varied
careers
including
Freelance
News
Correspondent
for a
country
newspaper
and
Lecturer
at Park
Lane
College.
Born in
Leeds,
West
Yorkshire
and
although I
have moved
all over
the
country
but
returned
to my
beloved
Yorkshire
to write
full time.
Read
more…
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David
Lin
My
name is
David Lin.
I am a
twenty-two
year old
Taiwanese.
Chinese is
my mother
tongue,
while
English is
my poetic
language.
It has
been five
years ever
since I
drafted my
first
poem.
Writing
poetry is
a major
part of my
lone
hours.
Hope you
like the
poems.
Read
more…
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David
Whitney
I
have been
writing
poems and
short
stories
since a
child, I
am now 58
years old,
married,
no
children
and am at
present
semi-retired
and living
a pleasant
easy going
life here
in Spain (Torrevieja).
Read
more…
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Dianne
Audrey
Daniels
My
name is
Dianne
Audrey
Daniels, i
am now
semi
retired
and i live
in a
little
village in
Preston. I
started to
write
poems in
nineteen
sixty nine
as a way
of
expressing
my
feelings
and
releasing
my
emotions.
Writing
poetry not
only helps
you to
offload
any anger
that you
have but
when there
is sadness
in your
life and
you put it
into words
it helps
you to see
it more
clearly.
Read
more…
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Alison
Bell
my
name is
Alison
Bell I
live in
Jarrow
Tyne and
wear, I
first
started
writing
poetry ten
years ago
and had my
first poem
published
by arrival
press. The
following
year I had
another
two
published
and the
year after
that
another
published.
I was busy
raising
four
children
and didn't
have time
to write
but since
turning
the
dreaded
40! last
year I
started
writing
again and
just this
past year
I have
heard from
forward
press that
the two
poems I
wrote are
about to
be
published
one in
November
and one in
December.
Read
more…
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Sandra
Larkins
This
is Sandra
(Pettry)
Larkins I
want thank
you for
taking out
the time
to read
poetry. I
am like
many
authors; I
pour my
heart into
my
writing.
My writing
goal is to
tug at the
heart of
others
just a
little. If
I give my
reader
something
to think
about then
I have
accomplished
my
lifetime
goal.
Writing is
a pleasure
and a joy
that I
will
always
cherish in
my life.
My
inspiration
comes from
family,
friends
and the
Lord.
I have
written
articles
for
newspapers.
My column
was called
Neighbors
and
Friends.I
write
things for
the public
for
special or
personal
occasions
in their
life. Read
more…
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Elisha
Mesquitta
I
am 26 and
I live in
Birmingham.
I was
introduced
to poetry
at primary
school, I
then
forgot
about it
for
so many
years as
situations
happen.
I
then began
to start
writing
again for
the past
four years
and now I
cannot
seem to
stop, I
love
writing
poetry I
find it
calms me
as when I
write.
One
day I hope
to produce
a book of
poetry. Read
more…
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Louis
J Raphael
Educated
in
Peterborough,
I played
guitar in
folk and
blues
clubs in
the 60's
— left
for
Australia
in 1969
and
started
writing
poetry.
The pace
of life,
getting
married
and having
the first
of our
five children
soon put a
stop to my
writing.
We
returned
to England
in 1972
and I am
now
settled in
Watford. Read
more…
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Sarah
Hudson
My
name is
Sarah and
I live in
Cambridgeshire
with my
fiance and
my cat. I
have been
writing
poetry for
just over
six years
now. I
have no
formal
training,
but my
life has
taken many
twists and
turns and
I find
that
poetry is
the best
way to
explore my
feelings
and
express
myself. My
poetry
changes
daily and
I don't
necessarily
like to
restrict
myself to
strict
guidelines
as I find
this can
often
detract
from the
true
emotions I
am trying
to
express.
The
most
important
thing for
me is to
reach at
least one
other
person
with my
words and
give them
something
to relate
to. Read
more…
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Daniel
Exall
Winner
of our Top
5 Poets of August 2006
Online
Competition
Born
in a
village
called
Todmorden,
just
inside the
West
Yorkshire
border I
was always
a bit of a
pain as a
child. We
moved
around a
little and
by the
time I
begun
secondary
I’d been
to three
primary
schools,
the second
in Bacup,
the third
back in
Todmorden.
I might
have felt
I didn’t
fit in
when I
finally
did
arrive. Read
more…
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Colin
Ormston
Winner
of our Top
5 Poets of July 2006
Online
Competition
I began writing folk songs in my late teens, one of them recorded by "The
Pendlefolk" in the 1960's. After that, somehow, I lost the inclination to
write. In retrospect it was probably a combination of too little quality
time and a lack of truly inspirational surroundings. In 1990 I retired early
and with my wife, Joyce, moved to a small hamlet in rural France, beautiful
surroundings but still too little time as all our energies were poured into
renovating our farmstead. Read
more…
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