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Gerard Benson
£9.95
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Gerard Benson was born in London and lives in Bradford, where he is the city’s poet laureate. His children’s books have won the Signal Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
A Good Time is his fourth collection for grownups, along with a number of anthologies, including the Poems on the Underground series, of which he is a founding editor. He was the first ever poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust, and is a popular reader and tutor.
'Gerard Benson’s poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.' — Michael Glover, The Independent
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Jane Routh
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Jane Routh manages woodlands and a flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland, North Lancashire, where she’s lived for over thirty years. She taught and exhibited photography for several years, but more recently most of her creative work has been in writing – non-fiction, as well as poetry.
‘Her range is impressive… vivid language recreates the physical sensation of what is being described, ranging from the gritty and muscular to the tender and deeply thoughtful… Smith/Doorstop have a star on their list.’ — Matt Simpson, Stride
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Nina Boyd
£9.95
Overall winner of the 2009 Book & Pamphlet Competition
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Nina Boyd was born in Hertfordshire and moved to West Yorkshire in the sixties, where she had three children and graduated from Leeds University. She was a nurse, and later a medical book indexer. She is currently completing an MA in writing at MMU, and working on a biography of Mary Sophia Allen, one of the first British policewomen. Nina lives in Huddersfield, where she runs the legendary Albert Poets readings.
'A collection of cleanly-written and well-organised poems that, for all their efficiencies, are capable of leaving us with an appealing sense of mystery and unfinished business.' — Andrew Motion
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River Wolton
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River Wolton grew up in London and lived in Sheffield for twenty years before moving to Derbyshire. She is a freelance writer and facilitator, and was Derbyshire Poet Laureate 2007–9. This is her first full-length collection.
‘She explores a palpable contemporary world, tilting it to view its planes and angles. She is alert to the experience of exile and displacement, and ‘Departures 4.30 am’ is a necessary 21st century poem. Her writing is rhythmic, confident, the details telling. River Wolton is a poet to watch.’ — Moniza Alvi
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Simon Currie
£5
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Simon Currie was born in Leeds in 1938. He became a consultant
neurologist there. After Open University courses on literature and the
Enlightenment, he gained a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University on
medical interaction in colonial India and West Indies. He is a member
of the Beehive Poets, Bradford, and of the Pennine Poets. He lives in
Lower Wharfedale. He has two children. His wife, who died in 2009, was
the paediatrician Jane Wynne.
'Exposing human folly and celebrating human kindness, Simon Currie's poetry never fails to delight in the odd and unexpected, from outrageous uncles and pompous surgeons, to the ghosts of Romans and Icelandic trysts. Formally adroit and movingly lyrical, here is a poet with an eye and ear alive to what is hidden or unspoken, to life's often sinister subtext' — Anna Crowe
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