2008 Poet Laureate
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Cheshire Poet Laureate 2008–2009
W. Terry Fox
Terry was born in Watford of Welsh parents and moved to Cheshire in the 1960s for love. Poetry is one of his life’s passions: ‘Big words, small words, I love them all. I love the sounds and rhythms they make and I love them best when they are made into poems’. He describes his poetry as largely secular hymns to the simplest things around him.
Terry has been teaching poetry for the Contemporary Arts Department at Manchester Metropolitan University for ten years. As well as his poetry collections, Village Verse and Dance of Fools, he has a number of published songs to his credit and an acclaimed biography, Battling Jack, now in its second edition.
Terry sees his installation as Cheshire Poet Laureate as a tremendous honour. He will use the opportunity to write and publish further collections of his own work, and has made it his mission to gather poems from poets living and working in all areas of the county.
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In 1939, local poet Hedley Lucas published a collection of Cheshire poems, Homage to Cheshire. Terry aims to publish an updated Homage to Cheshire for 2009 and will be calling for submissions from writers all over the county.
Terry has been set the following core commissions during the course of his laureateship:
If you wish to invite Terry to an event, facilitate a workshop, or to commission him please contact Anne Sherman on 01244 972898. |
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