About
Rufford Country Park, England 2009
SHAUN BELCHER – POET
“…a concern for language and for how it shapes memory and identity.”
ANNA CROWE, LINES REVIEW, EDINBURGH.
” Belcher cannot be accused of nostalgia or pastoral myth-making but is as vituperative in tone as Larkin”
RAYMOND FRIEL, SOUTHFIELDS.
..the poems… individually and cumulatively preserve aspects of identity and genealogy rooted in a particular soil and way of life…..an underlying humaneness.”
STEWART CONN (Scottish Poet Laureate, Playwright )
“..your poem is so beautiful..I love the tenderness of the carrying of the horse which was rescued.”
(The Ice Horses)
TESS GALLAGHER (Poet)
Born Oxford, England, 1959
Oxford Polytechnic Foundation Art & Design 1978-1979
Hornsey College of Art : B.A. Fine Art 1979-1981
Nottingham University Teacher Training P.G.C.C.E. 2003-4
Derby University Postgrad. Cert. in Art Practice 2007-8
Started writing poetry in 1990 and immediately published in small literary magazines including Southfields, Slowdancer and Oxford Poetry etc.
Moved to Edinburgh 1994 and joined Shore Poets in Edinburgh and poem used as title of group anthology The Ice Horses in 1996. Anthology edited by Stewart Conn and Ian McDonough and included Ian Chrichton Smith and other leading Scottish poets.
Became interested in alt-country music in late eighties and still performs as alter-ego ‘Trailer Star’.
Moved to Oxford in 1996 and started online music webzine Flyinshoes which ran until 2004.
Moved to Nottingham U.K. 2002
Tribute to ‘Trailer Star’ CD ‘Moon Over The Downs’ released 2003 in aid of Cancer Research.
Trained as teacher at Nottingham University (P.G.C.C.E) 2004
Taught F.E. level art & design and now a multimedia lecturer at Trent University Nottingham, freelance web designer and writer and artist
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POETRY READINGS
2008 STAPLE LAUNCH: LOWDHAM FESTIVAL
2001 BACKROOM POETS, OXFORD :
With W.N.Herbert & Joe Butler.
2000 FIRE MAGAZINE READING Highgate London:
various writers associated with Fire.
2000 LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL :
Three Oxford Poets with Giles Goodland & Jeremy Hilton.
1999 SOUTHFIELDS MAGAZINE READING :
Magic Cafe, Oxford with Richard Price & Giles Goodland.
1996 SHORE POETS :
Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh with John Purser & Gillian Ferguson.
1993 DIDCOT FESTIVAL :
Didcot Library with fellow Didcot poets Jonathan Davidson & Greg Sweetnam.
1992 SLOWDANCER 28 :
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham with Kirsty Gunn and Mark Robinson
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