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Deborah Tyler-Bennett went to Sutton Centre Comprehensive School. Her first collection was Clark Gable in Mansfield (King’s England, 2003). Her second, Pavilion, with sequences set in Brighton and on dandies is published by Smokestack Books (Feb 2010). Revudeville is forthcoming from King’s England. She’s just completed, Anglo-Punk, a sonnet sequence on Beau Brummell some of which is being published in The Raintown Review (US). Over four hundred poems and short fictions are published in anthologies, reviews, and in UK and international journals including: Speaking English: Poems for John Lucas (Five Leaves), Poetry: The Nottingham Collection (Five Leaves), The White Car (Ragged Raven), The Caledonia Review (web), and The Contemporary Review of Poetry (bluechrome). A programme on her work was broadcast on Radio Romania Cultural (June 29, 2008) and poems will appear in the Romanian journal, The International Notebook of Poetry (2010), she’s also included in the bi-lingual anthology And The Story Isn’t Over … (poetry p f, 2009). Other poems were broadcast in Romania in a programme with John Mole and Carol Rumens, and on Translation Café (web). Selected poems appear in Take Five edited by John Lucas (Shoestring, 2003). With Gill Spraggs she co-authored the Victoria and Albert Museum’s creative writing web-package (link). She co-wrote a book on creative writing in schools with Mark Goodwin, with whom (amongst others) she edited the pack: Words and Things (2008). She’s edited the anthology: Speaking Words (Crystal Clear, 2005), and a creative pack to accompany Nottingham Museum Services’ 1950s, ’60s and ’70s Resource Box. Other finished projects are resources on the School Days collection for Leicester City Museums, and ESOL, and commissions to write poems for display at Material Evidence: Sculpture from the Arts Council, Lincoln, The Collection, 2008, and the Bank Street Arts exhibition In Their Own Words. She worked with textile artist, Ruth Singer, on the Art Box project for Leicestershire’s Open Museums’ Artworks Collection, commissioned poems for which appear as a pamphlet for schools: The Ballad of Epping and Other Poems (Leics: LCC Educational Pilot, 2008). She regularly performs, as well as doing writing workshops in varied settings (these sometimes reflecting ideas inspired by vintage fashion, which she collects and often wears). She’s currently working on the Poetry Quest project at Nottingham Castle. Recent readings, mentoring schemes, and workshops include venues such as the Science Museum (www.bshs.org.uk/bshs/outreach/objectstories/index.html), state schools at Eton College, The University of Ghent, Bilston Craft Gallery, Leicester’s City Gallery (using the Nicola Malkin Exhibition), The Callander Poetry Weekend, Nottinghamshire Museums, The Flying Goose, Beeston (with Matthew Sweeney), and the National Gallery (for New York University). Her poems have won many awards including The Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy and in 2007 she was runner-up for The Poets’ Poet Award. She’s edited the journal, The Coffee House, for ten years. An exhibition with visual artist Lora Redman, An Occasional Man, was displayed at Market Harborough Museum (April 30-28 June, 2007) as part of Write Muse, a project linking artists and writers. Visual art sites that have influenced Deborah's writing and collections or with whom she has worked: Duggie Fields Ruth Singer Artspace Leicestershire
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