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Lives
in Stansfield, Sudbury, Suffolk
Essex Poetry Festival committee (2005-2019), Trustee of the Suffolk
Poetry Society and Poetry Society Suffolk Stanza Rep from
(2016-2023), Committee member of Poetry Aloud Bury St Edmunds (2018
-2022)
He
has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths,
University of London.
His
poems have appeared in the following magazines or ezines :
Acumen,
Allegro,
Ambit, Angle,
Apostrophe, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Boomerang, Black
October, Chimera, Citizen 32, Clean Sheets, Comrades, The
Curlew, The Delinquent, Dream People, The Ekphrastic Review,
The-errorist, Erosha, Envoi, Eyewear,
The
Fenland Reed, Goldfish, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreters House, Krax, LabLit, Legend, Littoral, London Grip, Magma, Maintenant
(USA), Moonstone, Neon, Nth
Position, Obsessed With Pipework, The Ofi Press Literary
Magazine, Orbis,
Other Poetry, P.F.S.Post,
Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham International, The Poetry
Box, The Poet Tree, Haiku
Presence, Purple Patch, Read The Music, Red Lamp, Rialto, Rising, Seam, Smith's Knoll, Snakeskin,
Sol, South,
South
Bank Poetry, Southend Poetry, SpinDrifter (USA), Strange Horizons, Stride Magazine, Tears
In The Fence, Trespass, Twelve Rivers, Verse Libre, Visionary
Tongue, Welcome, The Whistle House, Winedark Sea (NZ),The
Wolf, Writers Muse, Zafusy.
and
in these anthologies :
Green
Fuses (Vole Books 2024)
Ripples: Poems – Selections by Elizabeth Cook for Suffolk
Poetry Society’s 70th Anniversary (Suffolk Poetry Society 2022)
On a Knife Edge (Suffolk Poetry Society 2021)
The Tales Told by Birds – Poems in Lockdown (Watermelon
Press 2020)
The Language Of Salt (Fragmented Voices 2020)
Adamantine (Speckled Mountain Books 2020)
What
the Peacock Replied (Dempsey & Windle 2019)
What
the Elephant Said to the Peacock (Dempsey & Windle
2018)
Fifty Ways to Fly (Rhythm & Muse 2017)
Ornith-ology: the poetry of birds
(Poetry Wivenhoe & Mosaic 2016)
Day Begin... (Wivenbooks 2015)
GOLD: 30 years of Southend Poetry (2015)
Inspired by Hungarian poetry: British poets
in conversation with Attila József (2013)
From the City to the Saltings: Poems from Essex. (Poetry
in Practice 2013)
Pelaton (Templar Poetry 2013)
Birdbook 2: Freshwater Habitats (
Sidekick Books 2012)
Snap (Templar Poetry 2010)
Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus ( 2010)
Genius Floored (Soaring Penguin 2009)
Losing the Edge (Ragged Raven Press 2009)
Buzz (Templar Poetry 2008)
Lifemarks: Poetry about the big
events of life (Cub. December 2007)
Solitaire (Templar Poetry 2007)
Velvet
Avalanche: a collection of erotic poetry (Satjar
Projects 2006)
The Sleepless Sands (Earlyworks Press 2006)
A Dress of Nettles (Ragged Raven Press 2004)
Off The Wall - Anthology of Comic Verse (2003)
The Sensitively Thin Bill of the Shag (Biscuit Publishing
2003)
Saturday Night Desperate (Ragged Raven Press 2003)
Uno (Comrades Press 2002)
A
selection of my poems were chosen for Ragged Lion Press' Free
Poetry Series #8 Derek Adams - Undertow
Did I hear That (2012), a creative project with Royal
Philharmomic Society to explore using music as a source of
inspiration.
A
poem of mine appeared on a 'Poem Card' distrubuted around Southend
on Sea as part of the 2014 Southend festival
Co-editor
of: From the City to the Saltings, Poems From Essex (2013),
Sentinal Champions issue 11, Sentinal Champions issue 5
short
stories in :
House of Pain, Monas Hieroglyphica, Udolpho, Visionary Tongue,
Writers Muse.
performed at :
The
Poetry Cafe Covent Garden. The Troubadour Earls Court.
Cabaret Voltaire Colchester. Enfield
Poets The Essex Poetry Festival. The Leigh Folk
Festival. Nottingham Poetry Society. The Palace Theatre
(Westcliff). Southend Library. The Southend Poetry Group. Club Riga,
Westcliff. Sundown Arts (Southend). Waterstones (Southend). St
Benets Church, Blackfriars EC4. Colchester Arts Centre. Shakespeare and Company, Paris. Oxfam
Poetry Series (Marylebone High St). poetrywivenhoe.
Rayleigh Arts Festival. Derwent Poetry Festival. Lumen Poetry
Series. Camden Poetry Series. Ride the Word. I Scream Sunday.
Howl, Poets off the Shelf, More Poerty, Ware Poets, Poetry
Aloud, Sudbury Poets, Dada Invasion London.
"As
a live performer he mixes depth and subtle humour " Jamie
Spracklen writing in Visionary Tongue Magazine
performed
on :
Poetry Please, BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio Essex
Sue Marchant show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire/Essex/Suffolk
Poem featured on the 'Listening Wall' at Poetry International
at the Southbank Centre, London.
led
poetry writing workshops for :
Farleys
House & Gallery, The Lettering Arts Trust, OU Poets,
Poetry Wivenhoe, Essex Book Festival, Poetry Aloud (Bury St
Edmunds), The Gibberd Garden (Harlow), Festival of Suffolk
Poetry, Ely Folk Festival, Essex Poetry Festival, London South
Bank University, The Southend Poetry Group.
Commissioned by Waveney
& Blyth Arts to produce a video poetry workshop, aimed at children
aged 8 – 12 years and their families, for their YouTube channel, September 2020
Ely
Folk Festival, Poet in Residence 2015 & 2016.
photographic exhibition:
Traced in the Shadows - Ways
of Looking at Poets:
Poetry Cafe, Betterton St. London WC2, 1st-30th September,
2005.
The Gallery, Chelmsford Central Library,
Essex, 1st-30th October, 2006.
A.N.P.Q 4 Avenue Marcellin
Albert, 34800, Péret, France 20 June – 25 July 2009
traced in the shadows: derek adams: ways of looking at poets,
photography - tanguy flot, tableaux
Photographs
of contemporary British poets contrast with images cut from
fabric and built with layers of hand-worked clay. Two artists
whose work reveals a shared perception of the essence of
the image.
Icebytes,
Ledbury Poetry Festival, 1st - 10th July 2011
Poetry
Cafe, Betterton St. London WC2, 5th March to mid April 2012
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