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CATEGORY OF WRITING
Poetry, story telling, educational writing

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Teacher for fifteen years, now full time freelance writer and performer; provider of workshops and in-service training sessions. Two children, one wife; would like to keep it that way.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Several years of readings, performances, workshops, training sessions, lectures.   Visited around five hundred schools: nursery, primary, secondary and special.   Also worked with higher education students/lecturers, librarians and community workers.  MA in Creative Writing, Lancaster University, 1992.  Reviews for and contributes to Literacy & Learning and The Primary English Magazine.

PUBLICATIONS, RADIO AND TV WORK
Poems published in many magazines and anthologies; won prizes in national competitions; broadcast on BBC local and national radio and on television.
Contributing author to Common Bonds: Story Telling in the Classroom (1992) [pub. Hodder & Stoughton]

Books Published: 

So There! (1993)
Talking With Your Mouth Full (1995)
Mmmmm (1997)
Body Noises (1998)
Phwoarr (2000)
Happy to be Here (2001)
Big Deal (2002)
Uh Huh Huh (2004)
Cowboy...and other Animals (2005)
The Buried Vest of...David Horner (2007)

POPoetry Audio Cassettes:

POPoetry (1997) - sold out - available for download here
Bitesize (1999) - sold out

POPoetry CD:

POP-o-e-3 (2003)