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About Ron Scowcroft

I began writing poetry in my early twenties - there were some successes in the early Litfest competitions, college magazine publications and a polemic in The Tribune. After teaching for a number of years, I absconded to Lancaster University to complete an M.A. thesis on the life and works of Mervyn Peake. This set a pattern for life. I returned to Lancaster in the early ‘90s and completed my Ph.D. research on J.G. Ballard and visual art several years later.

My current writing output began in 2006. Since then my work has been listed for The Bridport prize, commended in the City of Derby competition and published in national poetry magazines. The Guardian Books website selected two poems for critical reviews in 2008.

I have produced a number of collaborative pieces with artists John M. Morrison and Jayne Simpson, read regularly at The Spotlight, Lancaster, and have appeared at venues in north Lancashire and Cumbria.

Competition News:

Shortlisted for the Templar Poetry Pamphlet prize 2010. Two poems selected for the prizewinners' anthology.