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Michael di Placido: A one-time professional footballer, in what now seems like some previous incarnation, I returned to full-time education in 1997, gaining a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English and Poetry respectively. Currently, a house-husband—of dubious merit—and a wannabee freelance writer—hopefully of a higher order. Works in progress: a first, full collection of poetry; a study of Ted Hughes; an exploration, in verse, of Wilfred Owen’s connections with Scarborough; and, lastly, a poem sequence recounting a trial period spent with Manchester United in 1970.
A handful of publishing credits: 2002: The North (Vol. 31). Flamingo Land. 2003: www.limestonemag.net. Poems and essays. 2003: Ilkley Literature Festival: doppelgangers appeared as a Shop Window poem. 2004: Pennine Platform (No.56). Not Quite Birdsong. 2004: Selected for The Poetry Business’s Second Writing School. 2005: The North (Vol. 36). Review of R.S. Thomas, Later Poems 1998 - 2000 (Bloodaxe Books) 2005: short-listed in The Poetry Business’s, ‘Book and Pamphlet Competition.’ Guest Judge: Simon Armitage. 2006: The North (Vol. 39). Poems Heron, Hare and Invitation. Also, reviews of two Bloodaxe collections and one Arc publication.
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