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Simon Tonkin

 

I started writing poetry as a teenager and soon became a regular contributor to the ‘Underground’ press of the time.

 

In 1972 I began trying to write a novel and was the recipient of a South West Arts Writer’s Award for an excerpt. But it wasn't until the early part of this century that I really began to seriously attempt to complete it. Our writing group has been invaluable in enabling me to at last finish the work. Extracts of the novel - Dylan and Dying - have now appeared in ‘Litro’ Magazine and in a podcast for ‘Literature Works’ the South West Literature Development Agency. I won the Dylan Down the Ups short story competition in 2009 with a piece pulled from the main body of the work.

 

I continued to write poetry all this time and in December 2014 one of my poems was responsible for my being named Liberty's 80th Writer in commemoration of the Human Rights organisation's  formation in 1934.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  SPERO HOC ADIUVAT

I'm pleased to say my drawing of Court Green was used by the BBC for the programme - 'TED HUGHES - STRONGER THAN DEATH', shown as part of their Poetry Season October 2015.
This superb programme is  available on BBC iPlayer

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