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Poet Profiles
Ben Ridley-Jones
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…
James Domestic
James Domestic is a poet, musician, songwriter, vocalist, DJ, and painter. James’ poetry has been compared to John Cooper Clarke, Spike Milligan, Ivor Cutler, and Benjamin Zephaniah, amongst others. He holds a doctorate from the University of Essex and has toured across Europe with his band, The Domestics. Having grown up in Essex, he now resides…
Virginia Betts
Virginia Betts is a British author, poet, actor and tutor from Ipswich in Suffolk. She has written four books: The Camera Obscure, a collection of supernatural and noir stories; Tourist to the Sun, a poetry collection, That Little Voice, poetry by Virginia Betts and Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets, Virginia’s debut novel, a darkly comic…
David Redfield
David Redfield is a poet, writer, mentor, performer and workshop leader. After graduating in English and Drama from King Alfred’s College, Winchester, David worked in the public sector for a number of years, including a career in Special Educational Needs. His published work includes Stretching Horizons (2002), Utter (2010) – both Hawthorn Press – and Sulla’s Cauldron, with Diane Griffiths, (Cratageus…
Dr Ronald Blythe CBE
We are saddened to hear that our oldest member, Dr Ronald Blythe CBE, has passed away. We were honoured to have received the support of such a respected writer over the years. RIP Ronnie
Julia Duke
As a writer, I love to experiment. Over the years I have worked extensively at poetry, my first love, and at creative nonfiction, including nature writing, memoir and a recent, mixed-genre project on identity. In recent years I have developed my poetry writing more fully, exploring my interest in imagist poetry, free verse and traditional…
Pat Jourdan
At Liverpool College of Art, Pat Jourdan studied painting, in the same class as John Lennon and Cynthia Powell. Later she was described by Ian McEwan as “ a little-known but gifted poet, a woman of the Liverpool school,” (page 137 of his novel ‘Saturday.’) An early poem ‘Launderette’ was included in Best Poems of…
Lynne Nesbit
I moved to Suffolk’s Waveney Valley in 2017. After a lifetime in London, the move precipitated my next life. It will be a long one. I loved London and my life there, with easy access to the cultural capital of the world, though I didn’t take full advantage. One rarely does. But no-one knew me…
Sue Foster
I have liked writing things since the beginning. I am Welsh; a doctor’s daughter; middle child; singer; theatre performer; wife to a Norfolk man; mother; grandmother of twins, their sister and four more; gardener, tree planter, and smallholder of sheep, chickens and veg. in the Suffolk countryside. Did I mention I love walking, dancing and…
