Background information

Literature-related CV

• 1972 - 1st poem in school magazine
• 1975 - 3rd in British U-18s chess championship
• 1978 - Maths IIi (UEA)
• 1979 - Worked at Southsea's South Parade Pier, Shipham's Meat Factory (mostly chicken)
• 1981 - PGCE
• 1981-3 - Maths Teacher
• 1980-3 - India, Morocco, France, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, Eire, Scotland, Italy, Wales, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain
• 1984 - Publication of "Tim Loves Cricket" computer game - see the website
• 1985-6 - Educational Researcher
• 1987 - 1st national literary magazine publication (Folio)
• 1988 - M.Sc Software Engineering (Liverpool)
• 1988 - 1st radio broadcast (BBC Radio Merseyside)
• 1989 - Research Assistant, Cambridge University
• 1989-1995 - Local voluntary environmental campaigner
• 1991 - 1st academic paper published ("Graphical Interfaces in Education: A Case History")
• 1992 - Marriage to Mariella Gregori
• 1992 - 1st poetry competition win (150 pounds, West Sussex)
• 1993 - 1st son (Sam) born
• 1993 - 1st Web page
• 1994 - Computer Officer, Cambridge University
• 1996 - 2nd son (Luca) born
• 2002 - Editor of WWW magazine (PaP: Poetry about Poetry)
• 2002 - 1st foreign publication (Mobius, US)
• 2002 - Moderator of Eratosphere fiction Forum
• 2003 - 1st published prose review (Staple)
• 2005 - 1st poetry video
• 2007 - 1st story competition win (250 pounds, Short Fiction)
• 2008 - 1st published poetry review (Poetry Nottingham)
• 2010 - 1st poetry pamphlet - "Moving Parts" (HappenStance) - see the website
• 2012 - 1st short story book - "By All Means" (Under Nine Arches) - see the website
• 2017 - 1st appearance on a back cover -

Or see my Illustrated CV

Performances

Norwich, Nottingham (with Henry Normal), Cambridge (with William Oxley), Leicester, Leamington Spa

Extracts from rejection slips

• "I've read the poems many times now, with the greatest interest. But after much thought, and no little reluctance, I must return them good as they are. I wish I could go into detail ...", Poetry
• "These poems did arrest me, for which I'm immediately grateful, and I think they all have substantial merits. I just wonder if, at times, you over-elaborate (almost as if lacking confidence that what you're doing will reach your reader?)", Poetry Review
• "in its own right it is very good work, unfortunately it's not right for Granta right now", Granta
• "I enjoyed these and I think we cd use Chess", London Magazine, 1994, " ... yes we have still got your chess piece ... the editor will find a place for it one day I've no doubt", London Magazine, 1998
• "Remember Goethe's advice to the misanthropic young Schopenhauer ... if you wish to enjoy (your) life, then you must ascribe value to (love) this world (as it is). Somehow you need to get out of yourself, your intellectual self."

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