A brief biography
I worked for many years as a journalist on the Financial Times before becoming a full-time writer in 2009. Although I'd started out writing poetry, the dazzle of riches took me for a while into the world of thrillers with the publication of a novel, Cold Rain (Grafton Books 1988), before I decided to return to poetry and the happy flutter of rejection slips.
Along the way I've been fortunate enough to win some prizes and Salt Publishing brought out my collection Flatlands in September 2010. My latest collection, Waiting to Tango, won Templar Poetry's Straid Award and was published in January 2016. A slimmer collection, Banquet in the Hall of Happiness, won the Munster Literature Centre's international Fool for Poetry chapbook competition and was launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival in February 2016.
As for the rest, I was born in Watford, grew up in Bedfordshire and I have an MA in Writing from the University of Glamorgan, now the University of South Wales. I've got a family and live with my wife in Essex in a house that's said to have been part of a barracks in the Napoleonic wars. I like to travel a bit.
Along the way I've been fortunate enough to win some prizes and Salt Publishing brought out my collection Flatlands in September 2010. My latest collection, Waiting to Tango, won Templar Poetry's Straid Award and was published in January 2016. A slimmer collection, Banquet in the Hall of Happiness, won the Munster Literature Centre's international Fool for Poetry chapbook competition and was launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival in February 2016.
As for the rest, I was born in Watford, grew up in Bedfordshire and I have an MA in Writing from the University of Glamorgan, now the University of South Wales. I've got a family and live with my wife in Essex in a house that's said to have been part of a barracks in the Napoleonic wars. I like to travel a bit.