Pennine Poets
Chris Andrew was born in Ashton-U-Lyne in 1968 and now works for the National Health Service in Bradford.
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Bruce Barnes is a Bradford based poet, a student from the Writing MA at Sheffield Hallam University, and a member of Beehive Poets.
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Andrew was born in Haworth, West Yorkshire in 1963. 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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Nicholas Bielby, the second longest surviving member of Pennine Poets, is the current convener. He edits Pennine Platform and Graft Poetry. A prize-winning poet (Arvon International, New Poetry, etc.), he has had three books of poems published and a fourth is coming out from the University of Salzburg in 2015.
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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 worked her way north via the Potteries, Manchester and York to Huddersfield where she began writing poems on a poetry MA.
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Simon Currie, has attended Pennine Poets workshops and events for twelve years.
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Ian was 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 spanned many decades of creativity. Born in 1917, the year of Passchendaele, her life had been shadowed by war: 1914-18 and then 1939-45.
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Rob Hawley was born in Lancashire in 1966. He is a teacher of History, a contributor to various county magazines under the pseudonym Jonas Holdsworth, a freelance copywriter and a member of Pennine Poets.
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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. Three novels -
Waters of Time and
The Keepers and
Border 7 - and eleven collections of her own poetry have been published, the latest,
Time Traveller (Graft Poetry) is 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 was a widely published poet, classically trained pianist and an artist whose creativity over several decades spanned all three areas.
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Jane was one of the founder members of Pennine Poets.
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Josie Walsh was born in Cambridge but has lived for most of her adult life in Wakefield.
Her first public writing was a prize-winning essay on Cinema.
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