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Andrea Porter I live in the Fens near Cambridge. I am a member of Joy of Six Poetry group, which has performed all over England and Wales and with great success in New York. I have been published in a number of poetry magazines and online magazine in the UK, USA and Australia including The SHOp, Envoi, Smiths Knoll , Rattapallax, Red lamp, Nth Position, and Ink, Sweat and Tears. I was published in The Forward Book of Poetry 2005. I have had two pamphlets published. The second, a narrative sequence of poems (Bubble) was published by Flarestack in October 2004. This sequence was adapted for radio by the award winning RSC playwright Fraser Grace. The play was nominated for a Sony Prize for radio drama and a Richard Imison Award for First Time Writers for radio. In 2006 I received an Escalator award managed by the New Writing Partnership and subsequently received an Arts Council Grant to complete a novel. In 2006 I worked on a collaborative piece with another writer, a digital artist and composer commissioned by the European Fund about the riverside area in Norwich. This commissioned piece can be assessed online at dnavigate. My first full collection, A Season of Small Insanities, was published by Salt Publishing in April 2009. (link - Salt/A Season of Small Insanities) Comments on A Season of Small Insanities: Like her Shaman, Porter draws survivors and ghosts about her, and with a hawk's eye for happenstance of living language, she rewrites myth, catching the white of Shiva's eye, acknowledging both chaos and random kindness, harm and hilarity. She heeds the overlooked – the child contaminated by radiation, the immigrant coaching herself in her new life's story, the girl who gives sales advice on vibrators, the women who sells phone sex, night porters, long distance drivers. For Porter, there is no taboo and this is her poetry's most generous gift. "Life is in the detail. Death is in the detail." Jen Hadfield (Winner of the T S Eliot Award 2008)
The forensic eye and the killer detail, Porter’s poems take you to worlds you deliberately forgot, you emerge feeling stronger, almost heroic – humanity reinforced, often laughing, always hungry for life Fraser Grace (Award winning dramatist, Sony Award winner and short story writer)
'The fascinating cut glass surfaces of her work, always tug against an undercurrent of darkness and violence.' Jo Shapcott
I rely on ginseng, vitamin supplements, walks along the side of fen dykes in force 8 winds blowing in from the Ural mountains and of course good friends to help me do everything listed previously.
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