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Carolyn King has lived on the south coast of the Isle of Wight for 30 years, but grew up in Slough — alongside Eton College playing-fields — and comes from a family of musicians. Her mother was a classical ballet dancer and pianist — her father a jazz violinist; her great-grandfather ran the Pier show at Great Yarmouth around the time of the First World War and wrote many of its best-known songs, his family spending their summers by the sea and their winters in London, where he composed from his music shop in Edgware Road. After working on newspapers prior to raising a family, she spent the last 20 years of her working life in a residential special school for children with speech and language impairment. These days she describes herself as a full-time person/writer — and enjoys this new role! Carolyn’s poetry has been widely published in magazines and her competition successes include six First Prizes (most notably in the 2004 Myeloma Awareness Competition, when she flew to Scotland to receive the award from Edinburgh’s poet laureate Stewart Conn) along with several 2nds, 3rds and commendations; there are three full-length collections to date from her own publisher title, Human Writes (The Reunion, ISBN 0 9531860 0 8; Lifelines, ISBN 0 9531860 1 6; Caviare and Chips, ISBN 0 9531860 2 4) and she is working on a fourth. Stewart Conn described her Myeloma prize-winner as “a poem of astonishing finesse.., which simply bowled me over”. Her own collections have received encouraging reviews, the latest, Caviare and Chips, being described by Dr RV Bailey in her Envoi review as “alert and risk-taking, fresh, personal, readable: a reliably interesting — and often thought-provoking — collection.” Carolyn reads at a wide variety of venues — in London, Wales. York, Ledbury, Hastings, Cornwall — and regularly at Quay Arts on the Isle of Wight. She is a member of the Poetry Society and its Island Stanza group.
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