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He has run creative and critical workshops on poetry for all ages and abilities, including writers’ groups, U3A groups and in prisons, schools, youth clubs and day care centres. He has also run workshops for those with mental and physical disabilities. In 2001 and 2003 he ran workshops for ‘NAWG (National Association of Writers’ Groups) Open Festival of Writing’ in Durham.
An experienced performer, John has read at pubs, clubs, theatres and at the Buxton and Edinburgh fringe festivals. Currently working on a collection of poems on the subject of cinema, he staged a self-written show, Screen Fever, at Congleton Library in September 1999, which further explored this theme and married his poems to film music and dialogue. The show has since been performed for arts groups and at the Jon Silkin Memorial Festival in Camelford, Cornwall and at Ledbury Poetry Festival.
John won the Words of Silk Open Poetry Competition in 1999, was runner up in the Jackson’s Arm Poetry Pamphlet Competition in 1997 and has been a three times prize-winner in the Lancaster Literature Festival and a prize-winner in the Manchester Open Poetry and the Blythe Spirit Open Poetry competitions.
Two collections of his poems appeared in 1976 and 1982 and were followed by his first full-length collection, Stills from November Campaigns, which was published by Tarantula in 1998. A further collection, Scarecrow Crimes, was published by New Hope International in February 2002.
John was appointed as the literary ‘Arts Form Specialist’ by Congleton Borough Council to work on their 18 month Imprints Community Arts Project. Other recent commissions include running workshops in schools for Buxton Opera House for their Feeder Reader - Living Book project, workshops in day centres for Age Concern’s WearPurple arts project and distance learning workshops for writers in Africa as part of the British Council funded Crossing Borders project.
John has been set the following core commissions during the course of his 12 month laureateship:
John Lindley can be contacted for readings and workshops at:
Tel: 01260 273219 (home) or 07816 766611 (mobile)
e-mail: j.lindley1@sky.com
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