"…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. Brought up on a farm before moving to the small town of Didcot, England.
Studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art, London.
Began writing poetry in the mid 1980's and subsequently has been published in a number of small
magazines and the anthology 'The Ice Horses' (Scottish Cultural Press).
Reviews of poetry and poems in Lines Review, Edinburgh plus individual poems in following small magazines....Southfields, Slowdancer, Gairfish, Oxford Poetry, Odyssey, Fatchance, Envoi,
Poetry London Newsletter, Bound Spiral, Interactions etc.
Now lives in Nottingham, England after two years in Edinburgh studying folk culture
and several years in the City of Expiring Dreams...Oxford.
More recently has featured in Guardian Online and U.S. website 'Smokebox'.
Currently working on a new volume of poems based in Nottingham called 'Odessa'
and has been involved in various literary projects including delivering creative writing workshops
in Nottingham prison for the Inside Out project.
Always interested in creative use of words in an educational setting.....see chalkfish website
CRB advanced cleared PGCCE qualified and a Key Skills/Literacy tutor to Level 1 & 2
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PUBLICATIONS
1996
'The Ice Horses' A Shore Poets Anthology.
(Scottish Cultural Press)
2005
THE FARM-HAND'S RADIO
Horseshoe Press e-book 001
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Reviews of poetry and poems in Lines Review, Edinburgh plus individual poems in following small magazines.Southfields, Slowdancer, Gairfish, Oxford Poetry, Odyssey, Fatchance, Envoi, Poetry London Newsletter, Bound Spiral, Interactions etc.
POETRY READINGS
2001 BACKROOM POETS, OXFORD : With W.N.Herbert & Joe Butler.
2000 FIRE MAGAZINE reading Highgate London with 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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