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I was brought up on a Suffolk Farm in the 1950’s and 60’s.  Following a degree in English at Lancaster and library studies at Aberystwyth, I was a librarian in Slough and in Norfolk and Suffolk, working with children and teachers and in a prison. Inspired by winning the Crabbe Poetry Competition back in 2002,…

I was born to a German mother and English father shortly after the end of the war, and grew up speaking both English and German at home. I spent my early childhood in fifties Nottingham and the remainder in Kendal in the Lake District, where I had the good fortune to have an English teacher…

Ben Ridley-Jones (b.1993) spent much of his childhood in the Suffolk countryside with his family which has roots stretching back centuries in the county. He read History at Cambridge before embarking on a career of public service working to address the housing and homelessness crisis in England. For many years a reader of as much…