List Of Writers

SHARPE, MIKE

Ffynnon Ddewi, Wolfscastle, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA62 5NS.
Tel: (01348) 840425

Poet. Born in Alfreton, Derbyshire into a mining community in 1933. Mike was educated at Swanwick Hall Grammar School and Reading University where he researched the early novels of D. H. Lawrence for his MA. He was Head of the English Department in St. Bartholomew’s School, Newbury until 1988. Mike then moved to Pembrokeshire and began writing poetry. He has had critical work on D. H. Lawrence published in Essays in Criticism, various short stories broadcast on Radio 4 and has written several verse–dramas and documentary plays for BBC schools’ radio. Mike has most recently written a children’s story about child labour in Victorian mines. It is due to be published by Mill Publishing in 2007. Mike is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
Incomers (Shoestring Press, 1999)
Almost (Envoi Poets Publications, 2006)
Trapped (Mill Publishing, 2007)


Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings from and discussion of own poetry
2. Creative writing workshops

AGE RANGE: Senior secondary school/adults



Almost (Envoi Poets Publications, 2006)

Collection of poetry.

To purchase this title, please write to Mike at the above address.