Pennine Poets
Andrew was born in Haworth, West Yorkshire in 1963, home of the Bronte sisters and just over the moors from Ted Hughes' birthplace. He attended York University and gained a first class degree in English where he won the Ursula Wadey Memorial prize for his translation of Georges Bataille's
Histoire de l'oeil.
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John is Head of English in a West Yorkshire comprehensive school.
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Julia Deakin was born in Nuneaton and has worked her way slowly north via Shropshire, the Potteries and Manchester to York where she went to university, learned to make toasted sandwiches and to love God's own county.
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Simon Currie. Member of Pennine Poets since 2002, Bradford and Huddersfield
groups since 1999.
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Ian is an artist and writer with eight books published, including a novel-in-verse
Pirouette of Earth...
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Novelist, local historian, critic, journalist, and poet, Mabel Ferrett's career has spanned many decades of creativity. Born in 1917, the year of Passchendaele, her life has been shadowed by war: 1914-18 and then 1939-45.
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Lesley Quayle was born in Fife. Daughter of a naval officer, she moved all over Britain, attending eight different schools in six different counties, always returning to the family home in Glasgow whilst her father was abroad on long tours of duty.
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Pauline Kirk is herself an author, poet and critic. Two novels -
Waters of Time and
The Keepers - and eight collections of her own poetry have been published, the latest,
Walking to Snailbeach: Selected and New Poems, receiving excellent reviews.
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K E Smith was born in Leeds and went to school there and, later, in Bradford. At Belle Vue Boys' School he became aware that J B Priestley had been a student of the school half a century before and this heightened his own growing love of literature.
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Joyce is a widely published poet, classically trained pianist and an artist whose creativity over several decades has spanned all three areas.
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