Andy Croft

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Andy Croft (born 1956) is an English writer, editor, poet and publisher based in North East England. [1] His books include Red Letter Days, a history of British political fiction of the 1930s. [2] Other books written or edited 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. [1]

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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, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, New York and London's Poetry International. He writes a regular poetry column for the Morning Star , is director of the T-Junction International Poetry festival, and he runs Smokestack Books. [1] [3]

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  1. 1 2 3 "About the Contributors", in Edward J. Carvalho (ed.), Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, ISBN   1611476429 (pp. 333–4).
  2. ↑ Christopher Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents, Harvard University Press, 2006, ISBN   0674021770 (p. 322).
  3. ↑ "About Smokestack Books". smokestack-books.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  4. ↑ Croft, Andy (1996). Nowhere special. Newcastle upon Tyne: Flambard. ISBN   9781873226223. OCLC   35831270.
  5. ↑ Blackburn, Dermot; Croft, Andy; Robinson, Mark (1996). Gaps between hills: photographs. Stockton-on-Tees: Scratch. ISBN   9781897698105. OCLC   51762227.
  6. ↑ Croft, Andy (2001). Great north: a poem of the Great North Run. North Shields: Iron Press. ISBN   9780906228890. OCLC   47357114.
  7. ↑ Croft, Andy (2001). Just as blue. Hexham: Flambard. ISBN   9781873226445. OCLC   46601263.
  8. ↑ Croft, Andy (2004). Comrade laughter. Hexham: Flambard. ISBN   9781873226667. OCLC   645826078.
  9. ↑ Croft, Andy (2008). The ghost writer: a novel in verse. Nottingham: Five Leaves. ISBN   9781905512386. OCLC   173720902.
  10. ↑ Croft, Andy (2009). Sticky. Newcastle upon Tyne: Flambard Press. ISBN   9781906601058. OCLC   837904537.
  11. ↑ Croft, Andy; Herbert, W. N.; Summers, Paul (2009). Three men on the metro. Nottingham: Five Leaves Pub. ISBN   9781905512843. OCLC   837028493.
  12. ↑ Croft, Andy; Rowson, Martin (2012). 1948: a novel in verse. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN   9781907869327. OCLC   793217371.
  13. ↑ Croft, Andy (2017). Letters to Randall Swingler. ISBN   9781910323847. OCLC   1000037797.
  14. ↑ Croft, Andy; Mitchell, Adrian (2003). Red sky at night: an anthology of British socialist poetry. Nottingham: Five Leaves. ISBN   9780907123491. OCLC   51622309.
  15. ↑ Fuller, Cynthia; Croft, Andy (2006). North by north-east: the region's contemporary poetry. Cullercoats, Northumberland: Iron Press. ISBN   9780906228937. OCLC   212204375.
  16. ↑ Croft, Andy; Dymoke, Sue (2006). Not just a game: an anthology of sporting poems. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN   9781905512133. OCLC   85824026.
  17. ↑ Croft, Andy (2007). Speaking English: poems for John Lucas. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN   9781905512126. OCLC   154708360.
  18. ↑ Baron, Michael; Croft, Andy; Swann, Jenny (2010). The night shift. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN   9781905512584. OCLC   244314996.
  19. ↑ Croft, Andy (2012). Everything flows: a celebration of the transporter bridge in poetry. Middlesbrough: Middlesbrough Borough Council. ISBN   9780860830924. OCLC   858967262.
  20. ↑ Croft, Andy; Thompson, N. S.; Byron, George Gordon Byron (2015). A modern Don Juan: Cantos for these times by Divers Hands. ISBN   9781910170045. OCLC   1062202730.
  21. ↑ Croft, Andy (2004). Smoke!. Place of publication not identified: Mudfog. ISBN   9781899503612. OCLC   947067829.


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