Click on the letters below to find South West based poets. Poets are listed alphabetically by surname.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 

Name:

David Hale

Contact:

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Website:

www.happenstancepress.com

 About:

David teaches at Ruskin Mill College in Gloucestershire. His first pamphlet The Last Walking Stick

Factory was produced by Happenstance, and his second collection, In Bedlam's Wood, won the

2014 Templar Pamphlet competition. 

 

Name:

Matthew J Hall

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.screamingwithbrevity.com

 About:

Small Press author based in Bristol, UK. 'Pigeons and Peace Doves' was a 2015 Blood

Pudding Press Chapbook Contest winner and 'The Human Condition is a Terminal Illness'

will soon be available from Bareback Press, February 2017.

 

Name:

Alyson Hallett

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.thestonelibrary.com

About:

Alyson’s books of poems include The Stone Library (Peterloo Poets), 365 (Agre Press), and

Towards Intimacy (Queriendo Press). She has published a book of short stories The Heart’s

Elliptical Orbit, written drama for Sky television, BBC Radio 4, and an audio-diary narrating her

journey to Australia with a migrating stone, Nature: Migrating Stones (BBC Radio 4).

Name:

Fiona Hamilton

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.orchardfoundation.co.uk

About:

Fiona is a writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction based in Bristol. She has two collections:

'Skinandi' and 'Poems for People'. Fiona teaches Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes at

Bristol University

 

Name:

Deborah Harvey

Contact:

-

Website:

www.deborahharvey.blogspot.co.uk

 About:

Deborah lives and writes in Bristol. Her first collection, 'Communion', was published in 2011 and

her second collection Map Reading for Beginners was published in 2014. She has also written a

novel, Dart, published in 2013.

Name:

Matt Harvey

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.mattharvey.co.uk

About:

Matt has published six collections: Here We Are Then, Songs Sung Sideways, Standing Up To

Be Counted Out, Curtains and Other Material, The Whole in the Sum of My Parts and Where

Earwigs Dare. He is also host of BBC Radio 4's Wondermentalist Cabaret.

 

Name:

Paul Hawkins

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.hesterglock.com

 About:

 

 

Paul is a poet and co-runs Hesterglock Press. His third book is due Oct 2015 (Influx Press).

 

 

 

Name:

Daniel Haynes

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.danielhaynes.co.uk

 About:

A spoken word artist, poet and writer of usually funny, surreal or satirical work, but not always.

Daniel was the Exeter Poetry Slam Champion in 2012, The Spokes Amaze Inaugral Slam

Winner in 2013 and Bard of Exeter 2014

 

Name:

Bob Hill

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

bobhillpoetry.wordpress.com

 About:

Bournemouth-based Bob is the promoter and compere of Beatnik Boulevard, a monthly event in

Banbury and is the creative director behind The Mighty Pen writing workshops. Bob has led

writing workshops in primary and secondary schools, retirement homes, and many other venues.

 

 

Name:

Selima Hill

Contact:

Website:

www.bloodaxebooks.com/SelimaHill

 About:

 

Selima is a tutor at the Poetry School in London, and has taught creative writing in hospitals and

prisons. She won first prize in the 1988 Arvon Foundation/Observer International Poetry

Competition and her collection, Bunny won the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001.

 

Name:

Rupert Hopkins

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.ruperthopkins.com

 About:

Rupert is a poet, documentary photographer and a Director of Say It Loud who has travelled

and performed his poetry in the USA on numerous occasions, been a regular performer at Austin

International Poetry Festival. When in Australia he read in Queensland's House of Parliament.

 

Name:

Ralph Hoyte

Contact:

[email protected]

Website:

www.ralphhoyte.net

 About:

Ralph is a Bristol-based poet, writer and text-based artist who works with words in time-based

media (performance, laptop-based poetry & music cut-up, radio, interpretive media, film, TV,

stageplays) as well as in visual and sculptural media.