Poet Profiles

  • Elizabeth Bracken

    Elizabeth Bracken

    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,…

  • Philip Rösel Baker

    Philip Rösel Baker

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

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