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John Godfrey: If you ignore his teenage poetic fumblings while in the sixth-form at Bristol Grammar School in the 1960s, John began writing after being persuaded to accompany his wife on a creative writing weekend in 1986. His poems have appeared in, among others, Acumen , Spokes , FatChance , Poetry Life, Interpreter’s House, The Frogmore Papers, and Seam . A small collection, Replaying the Echo, was published by Rockingham Press in 1995 and two of his poems appear in the anthology In the Company of Poets, (Hearing Eye Press, 2003). Since winning his first competition prize (4th in the Bridport in 1997) he has won 1st Prize in the Kent & Sussex (2000), the Chiltern Writers (2000), the Southport (2000), the Northampton (2002 & 2004), the Kick Start (2003), and, most recently, the Peterloo, (2005). He’s been placed in many others, including Poetry Life (1998), the Berkshire (2000), Ver Poets (2001 & 2004), the Kick Start (2002 & 2005) and the Yorkshire Open (2003) and has been commended or shortlisted in over thirty more. John has lived in Hitchin since 1978 and has been involved with Ware Poets since 1991. In 1997 he took voluntary redundancy from his job as a railway manager after deciding that work was starting to get in the way of other things he wanted to do – writing among them. This could explain why trains sometimes wander through his poems. Comments: On Glider: “[he] …convinced me that here a master craftsman was at work” John Greening,
Judge's Report, 2001 In a review of In the Company of Poets: “John Godfrey strikes me as one of the more skilled of the voices in this book and is dextrous with sense impression.”
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