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Malcolm Carson was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. He moved to Belfast with his family before returning to Lincolnshire, becoming an auctioneer and then a farm labourer. He studied English at Nottingham University, and then taught in Further Education and at the University of Northumbria in Carlisle where he now lives with his wife and three sons. He reviews for Critical Survey and Other Poetry. Recently he formed Border Poets to promote poetry from the small presses. This resulted in a highly successful season of seven readings in Carlisle, Small Presses – Big Voices. His first collection, Breccia, was published by Shoestring Press in June 2007. His work is influenced by his attachment to landscape whether that of the Wolds and marshes of Lincolnshire, the coast and hills of Antrim or the fells of Cumbria. He has been published widely in magazines, and a selection of his work has appeared in Take Five ’03 from Shoestring Press. He has appeared in the anthologies Miracle and Clockwork, (Other Poetry, 2005), The Nottingham Collection (Five Leaves Press, 2005) and Both Sides of Hadrian’s Wall (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2006).
Review comments: ‘Sense of place is strong in Malcolm Carson’s work – Ireland where some of his roots are, flat Lincolnshire from which he moved to hilly Cumbria.’ Other Poetry ‘Malcolm Carson’s landscapes…are explicitly emotional…. He has a wide-angle vision of the land and its inhabitants that is anything but parochial.’ Poetry Nottingham
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