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I build atmospheric narratives gleaned from the coincidences of circumstance
and the emotional geography of place. I want the physicality of words
to hook around the lurking ghosts and drag them from their petrified
corners.
texts
from Interregnum
recent publications
Interregnum (Creation Books 1994)
Dream Drover (Gratton Street Irregulars 1999)
Noctivagations (West House Books 2001)
Insubstantial Thoughts on the Transubstantiation of the Text (supplement
to The Paper 2002)
Angel High Wires with Martin Archer (La Cooka Ratcha, C.D. 2001)
biographical notes
Born Blackburn, Lancashire 1952.
1967 escaped school. 1969 escaped factories. 1974 escaped Leeds.
Moved to Staithes, North Yorkshire for 10 years of 'splendid isolation',
some very odd jobs and increasing preoccupation with reading and writing
poetry.
1988 B.A. Hons English Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.
1992-95 Visiting lecturer in Creative Writing & Communication Studies,
Chesterfield College of Art
1992-99 Creative Writer at St. Luke's Hospice.
contact
monk@themonk.demon.co.uk
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