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WORDSWORTH TRUST Penny Boxall
Penny Boxall was born in Surrey and grew up in rural Scotland and Yorkshire. She attended the University of East Anglia between 2005-2009, studying English Literature with Creative Writing at undergraduate level, and the Poetry strand of the Creative Writing MA. She is currently at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere as the Literature intern, working with the Literature Officer on the contemporary poetry programme. Much of her poetry is inspired by historical events. She has been shortlisted twice for an Eric Gregory Award.
Andrew Forster Andrew Forster's second collection explores what it means to make a home in a particular place, and the relationship with the environment this implies. Much of the collection is set in the remote former mining village of Leadhills, in South West Scotland, where these questions are encountered daily. The poems delve into the landscape, history and natural history of Leadhills and its surrounding area, looking at the uneasy balance of our relationship with nature, but the book also takes in the poet's wider territory of South West Scotland and North West England. Andrew Forster was born in South Yorkshire but lived in Scotland for over 20 years before moving to Cumbria in 2008. He worked in supported accommodation projects for adults with learning disabilities for 14 years. In 1998 he left to work on a number of community writing projects, many centred around museums, and in 2003 became Literature Development Officer for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Associateion. His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Flarestack published a pamphlet Dress Rehearsals in 2000. He published his first collection, Fear of Thunder, with Flambard in 2007. It was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2008, and poems from it have been selected for inclusion in the AQA GCSE anthology. His second collection, Territory, will be published by Flambard in May 2010. |
