Andy Croft (born 1956) is an English writer, editor, and poet based in
North East England
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["About the Contributors", in Edward J. Carvalho (ed.), ''Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, (pp. 333–4).] His books include ''Red Letter Days'', a history of British
political fiction of the
1930s. Other books by Croft include ''Out of the Old Earth'', ''A Weapon in the Struggle'', ''Selected Poems of Randall Swingler'', ''Comrade Heart'', ''After the Party'', ''A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme'' and ''Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing''. He has written seven novels and 42 books for teenagers, mostly about football.
Writing residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the
Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project,
HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire. He has given many poetry readings, including readings in
Paris,
Moscow,
Potsdam,
Sofia,
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London's
Poetry International. He writes a regular poetry column for the ''
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'', is director of the T-Junction International Poetry festival, and he runs Smokestack Books.
Bibliography
Collections of poetry
* ''Nowhere Special (''1996'')''
* ''Gaps Between Hills: Photographs (''1996'') with Mark Robinson and Dermot Blackburn''
* ''Great North: A Poem of the Great North Run'' (2001)
* ''Just as Blue'' (2009)
* ''Comrade Laughter'' (2004)
* ''The Ghost Writer: A Novel in Verse'' (2008)
* ''Sticky'' (2009)
* ''Three Men on the Metro'' (2009) ''with
W. N. Herbert and
Paul Summers
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* ''1948: A Novel in Verse'' (2012) ''with illustrations by
Martin Rowson''
* ''Letters to Randall Swingler'' (Shoestring Press, 2017)
Anthologies of poetry
* ''Red Sky at Night: an anthology of British socialist poetry'' (2003), ''with
Adrian Mitchell''
* ''North by North East: the region's contemporary poetry ''(2006) ''with Cynthia Fuller''
* ''Not Just a Game: an anthology of sporting poems'' (2006) ''with Sue Dymoke''
* ''Speaking English: Poems for John Lucas'' (2007)
* ''The Night Shift'' (2010) ''with Michael Baron and Jenny Swann''
* ''Everything Flows: A Celebration of the Transporter Bridge in Poetry'' (2012)
* ''A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for these Times by Divers Hands'' (2015) ''with Nigel Thompson and George Baron''
Other publications
* ''smoke! an historical pageant'' (2004, Mudfog) - commissioned as part of the 150th anniversary of
Middlesbrough.
* ''Comrade Heart: A Life of Randall Swingler'' (2003), revised 2020 a
''The Years of Anger''
References
External links
Andy Croft websiteSmokestack Books website
1956 births
Living people
20th-century British poets
21st-century British poets
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