List Of Writers

GIMBLETT, JOHN

47 Graig Park Avenue, Malpas, Nemport, NP20 6HA
Tel: (01633) 856113
Email: jgimblett.@freeuk.com
Website: http://jgimblett.tripod.com/jg/index-2.html

Poet, short story and travelogue writer. Also novelist and reviewer. Born in Newport. Travelled extensively in India and South East Asia, as well as Europe/West Asia. Edited and published a small press magazine, Frames, in the 1980s. Has published a number of poetry collections and has had poetry/short stories, articles published in Poetry Wales, Anglo-Welsh Review, New Welsh Review, Planet etc. Has also read on BBC Radio Wales, and for Glamorgan and Gwent/Newport Libraries. Also paints, has exhibited. Interested in art/literature collaboration.

Selected Publications:
Shadows and Fireflies (Stride, 1985)
Inishfree, Co. Donegal (Stride, 1986)
Water (Making Waves, 1988)
Mister John: Poems in India (Stride, 1991)
Magic Millions (Trombone, 1994)
Twice (Lung Gom Press, 1995)

Contributed to:
First Cuts (contributor) (Paramour Press, 1985)
Images for Africa (contributor) (Wateraid, 1988)
The Serendipity Caper (contributor) (Stride, 1994)
A Wasted Life: Selected Poems (contributor) (Toranao, 2001)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work - poetry, prose or both
2. Workshops
3. Children’s storytimes

AGE RANGE: Any! Playgroups/nurseries (2-3). AVAILABILITY: Evenings, any other time with sufficient notice; preferably within a 50 mile radius of Newport, but negotiable