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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…