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Born in Nigeria, educated at Christ's Hospital and New College, Oxford, Keith Chandler has worked as a schoolteacher in Liverpool, London and Norfolk. Since being selected for Ten English Poets (Carcanet) in 1978, his poetry has been published in three collections: Kett's Rebellion (Carcanet,1982), Passing Trade (O.U.P.,1991) and A Different Kind of Smoke (Redbeck, 2001). His new collection, The English Civil War Part 2, due for publication by Peterloo in the Autumn of 2008, includes four longer poems. The title poem questions the continuing value of Monarchy by modernising the story of the English Civil War. And Now for my Latest Trick is a monologue featuring Harry Houdini's death and his famous scorn for “spiritualism”. The Gap is a reminiscence of the East Coast Floods of 1953. |
Postcards from Auschwitz sequences a collage of voices from the death camp. There is also a section, Looking Myself Up, of shorter poems. Keith Chandler has won major prizes in the Petra Kenney Memorial, Huddersfield International, Dulwich Festival Open, Envoi International, Open University Poets, Orbis International, New Forest Open, Leicester Open, Academi Cardiff, Crabbe Memorial, Bedford, Ver Poets, Kent and Sussex Open, and Yorkshire poetry competitions. He has won “runner up” prizes in the Peterloo Open Competition for three years running. Poems by Keith Chandler have been featured in a Poetry Now programme on Radio 3. A play with poems for Valentine's Day, Card Trick, was commissioned and transmitted by Anglia TV. |
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