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Derek Adams was born in Walthamstow, London; he has lived in Essex since 1985, and is professional photographer and one of the organisers of the Essex Poetry Festival. Widely published in various magazines in the UK, USA & New Zealand including: Acumen, Interpreters House, Magma, Obsessed with Pipework, Rialto, Smith’s Knoll. He was winner of the 2006 BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year competition. His chapbook, Postcards to Olympus, was winner of the Poetry Monthly Booklet Competition 2004 and was named "Best Individual Collection Of Poetry For 2005" in Purple Patch Magazine's annual Best of the Small Press list. His first full collection Everyday Objects, Chance Remarks was published by the Littoral Press in 2005. His latest chapbook unconcerned but not indifferent - the life of Man Ray is a poetic biography of the surrealist artist and was published by Ninth Arrondissement Press, 2006. He has read at many venues including The Poetry Café, The Troubadour, The Derwent Poetry Festival, PoetryWivenhoe and Shakespeare & Co, Paris. He has been broadcast on “Poetry Please” BBC Radio4 and BBC Essex. Traced in the Shadows - Ways of Looking at Poets, a selection of photographic portraits was exhibited at the Poetry Cafe, Betterton St. London WC2, 1st-30th September, 2005 and at The Gallery, Chelmsford Central Library, Essex, 1st-30th October, 2006.
reviews: unconcerned but not indifferent ‘a book that is uniquely vivid and remarkable’ Maurice Riordan
Postcards to Olympus ‘a work of power, originality and individuality’ Patricia Prime, ‘elegant, spare poems’ Tia Ballantine,
Everyday Objects, Chance Remarks ‘I like the economy and apparent ease with which he constructs these poems. There is a sureness and craft to them’ Frank Dullaghan,
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