BRIAN DOCHERTY: born Glasgow, 1953, now lives in north London.  Educated at several institutions, including Middlesex Poly. University of Essex, London University Institute of Education, and St. Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill.   His CV features an implausible variety of jobs, including civil servant, hospital storeman, market trader, artists model, lecturer, and freelance writer.

Since 1978, he has been a member of various workshops and poetry groups from Camden Voices to Vertical Images; he is currently a member of Islington Poetry Workshop and Word for Word Writers group. He is widely published in magazines and anthologies. His second collection, A Desk with a View, was published by Hearing Eye in 2008 and his third, The 'If' in California, is forthcoming from Smokestack Books..

He has recently completed 2 booklength sequences, Memory Harbour: A Reading of Jack B. Yeats's Watercolours, and Space Cadets, science fiction poems in the tradition of Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg . This info. will be updated; meantime read the interview on the poetrykit website.

By the same author:

Poetry:      

Armchair Theatre (London: Hearing Eye, 1999)

As Editor:  

ed., with Tony Clelford & Deborah Eagle, Scribes and Passions An Anthology of New Writing by Word for Word (London: New Gallery Books, 1998)

ed., with Tony Clelford & Deborah Eagle, Into the Empty Space: A 2nd Anthology of New Writing by Word for Word (London: New Gallery books, 1999)

ed., with Angharad Ellis Jones & Elissa Swinglehurst, Life, Death, Sex & Chocolate A 3rd Anthology of New Writing by Word for Word (London : New Gallery Books, 2002).

Criticism:

ed., with Clive Bloom, Jane Gibb & Keith Shand, Nineteenth Century Suspense. from Poe to Conan Doyle (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988)

ed. American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988) ed. American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)

ed. Twentieth Century European Drama ( Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994)

ed., with Clive Bloom, American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995) ed., with Gary Day, British Poetryl900 -1950. Aspects of Tradition (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)

ed., with Gary Day, British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s. Politics and Art (Basingstoke:   Macmillan, 1997)

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