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Featured Poets 2007 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. Margaret Pedley I
am a fabulous
fiftyish year
old, and have
been writing
poetry for Keith Robson I am a 61 year old man living in Northumberland, who has been writing poetry for only the last four years, gaining great enjoyment from it. I mostly enjoy writing rhymed work, as opposed to prose, Rhymed work is beautiful, as long as it is done properly, and interwoven with good imagery, although I do write quite a bit of prose also. Alison Wade I’m from St Helena, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, unique and peaceful. I’ve been writing poetry since I was 12 years old, and won my first prize at my school for Hard Times on St Helena, a poem about how life use to be. I have always loved writing poetry, and recently some of my poems have been used as songs, just changing a few words. I was really excited when 3 of my songs was released. I was overwhelmed when I won the prize for October, it has boost my spirit for the new year and I certainly will continue to write. Rob Cunningham - Caskie I spent my early life in Liverpool 8, playing hide and seek in the `Debri`s, (Derelict houses), and footie on the `Debri`s, (Waste ground) in and around the Maple Grove, Sefton & Princes Park areas, Whilst being educated at Tiber St. Infants & Junior School off Lodge Lane. My Parents relocated to Cheshire in the late sixties , we,. as their children were granted two choices so took them both,.. our hearts stayed at home, and the rest went to `Bloody Winfield` as I thought it was called, where I was sure I would need a new language. Marcia Calame I am a writer of all things truthful, amusing, and inspirational. I write knowing that my roots are important to it me, so therefore, it is always, my underlay for whatever I write. To me, poetry is more than just rhyming. It is an avenue to many possibilities and an opening for my inner self. I believe the only way, to write, is to have the experience, be true to myself and allow my expressions to run freely. Sheila Gee Anyway, I just started writing poetry a year ago. I am a late starter. I'm 50 now. I can't recall having written any other poetry before then although perhaps I was made to write one for a project in school. Now though, poetry has a hold on me and I find I'm writing poetry most days. I enjoy rhyming but I do try to occasionally write non-rhyming stuff. I
love Spike
Milligan and Pam
Ayres and I
also enjoy Wendy
Cope's work. Leanne Bridgewater I stroll as Leanne Bridgewater, I thy lady child of 17 from Birmingham, UK. I believe life is all you need to feel alive and that you can only speak on behalf of yourself. In my poetry I talk of life the most - it's meanings, uses and activities, its expressions and how others react to them. I merge grammar problems and twisted lingo to inspire confusion leaving my rhyme state to come and goes as it pleases. I never take more than 20 minutes on a poem. I urge the random and notion. I love having time to think. As a child I thought too much so now I just kill my brain with alcohol to slow it down. Marvin Dawkins Marvin Dawkins, but people call him dawks, Marvin was born in North west London where he lived with his family, growing up he was the type of person considered to be shy, his drawing ability spoke for itself and so did his creative writing, which included poetry and these were during his school years, after leaving school he never wrote poetry again. Charles McInally I was born in Dundee on the East Coast of Scotland and I am currently aged 48. I landed in Yorkshire around 1989 as my final posting in the Royal Corps of Signals. When I was leaving I saw an advert for Signalling and ended up working for the railway (slightly different but just as interesting) so I stopped in York and have lived in that area ever since. English is a great language to write in but I am a purist and like to see it grammatically correct and spot on with regards to spelling. Diane Crouch I am thrilled that my poem "Architect of my Disaster" has been selected as Poem of the month! I am passionate about my writing and couldn’t believe it when I heard this poem was chosen as it is a personal favourite (I must confess to getting a bit emotional! ) I live in Bedfordshire and have two children. Matt, 28 is a police officer and Nikki, a nanny, is 23. They have always shown unconditional love and support to me and have tirelessly listened to all my poems over the years. I absolutely love to write and am so grateful for the support from my children. They have always been such an inspiration to me. Adeiza Atureta I
am Atureta
Adeiza, African
(of the western
sub-region). Bernadette O'Reilly My
Name is
Bernadette O'
Reilly, 36,
Abbotstown
Drive, Finglas
West, Dublin 11,
Ireland. Cameron Steel My
name is Cameron
Steel and I'm a
student from
Glasgow, I have
a keen interest
in both reading
and writing
poetry, this
however is my
first attempt at
to getting my
work published,
I believe that
my poems would
be an asset to
your website.
I have attached
a small
selection of my
work for your
consideration. Dianne Audrey Daniels My
name is Dianne
Audrey Daniels
and I started to
write poetry in
nineteen-sixty
nine as a way of
expressing my
feelings and
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. Andrew Blakemore I was born in the town of Aldridge in the West Midlands on January 1st 1966 and was educated at Aldridge Comprehensive School. From about the age of 16 I started to write verse. I had taken up playing the guitar in the sixth form and started to write some songs. It was something that I really enjoyed doing and have continued ever since. Music remained my first love and I graduated in Music with the Open University in 1999. It wasn’t until the year 2000 that I started to seriously write poetry. You could call it fate or destiny in the way that it happened. Clive Atkins Clive Atkins was born in 1953 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Like a lot of people in High Wycombe his family worked in the chair making industry, his father being a chair maker. He had a happy childhood with his mother and father and younger brother and lived in a council house in the Micklefield district. Clive is married with three grown up sons and now lives in Northamptonshire. Angelita Redfern When I came to live & joined my husband here in England in 1992 from the Philippines, I suffered from a culture shock which I think will be the effect of immigrating in a different country, so I decided to find the easiest way how to confront this sort of anxiety, especially if the people around me and my new family tried to helped me to adopt into my new way of life.
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