Angela Readman
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Angela Readman is an English poet, born in Middlesbrough in 1973.
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[edit] Early years
Angela Readman grew up in Middlesbrough, following university in Manchester she relocated to Newcastle Upon Tyne to complete a film studies MA.
She completed a masters in creative writing at the University of Northumbria in 2000, and won a Waterstones prize for her distinctive poetry and prose [1]
[edit] Awards
Her work has won a New Writing North awards [2], been placed in the Mslexia poetry competition, and Ragged Raven longer poems competition [1]. In 2005 she won The Biscuit Poetry competition and publication of a collection Sex with Elvis [3].
[edit] Work
Readman has published two full length collections of poetry (of 60 pages or more) and several shorter collections of work (including the bi-lingual Hard Core, with Finnish poet Tapani Kinnunen - translated into Finnish.) She was involved with The Flesh of the Bear Poetry exchange in 2004, which was a collaboration of Finnish poets and poets from the North East of England, including Bob Beagrie, Andy Willoughby, Esa Hirvonen, and Kalle Niinikangas [4].
In 2005 she edited Newcastle Stories (for Comma Press) [5] and accepted a post teaching creative writing at the University of Northumbria.
Her work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including London Magazine, Staple, Ambit and Mslexia.
On December 31st 2007 Frieda Hughes printed the poem Housewife from the Strip collection in her regular Times newspaper column [6]
[edit] Poetry
- Strip (Salt Publishing) 2007
- Hard Core (Ek Zuban) 2006
- Sex with Elvis (Biscuit Publishing) 2005
- Colours/Colors (Diamond Twig) 2000
- Unholy Trinity (Iron Press) 2001
[edit] Anthologies
- Magnetic North (New Writing North, 2005)
- Smelter (Mudfog) 2004
- The Flesh of the Bear (Ek Zuban)
- Under the Bridge (University of Northumbria Press) 2000
[edit] Descriptions of Readman’s Work
"Readman casts her eye on ordinary life with a sharp knife. This is witty, astute poetry of the inventive kind and feels important, as all good poetry should… Poetry with an edge" Julia Darling
"Angela Readman’s work is a carefully stitched embroidery of the familiar and the often overlooked or taken for granted- she makes pictures that stay in your mind long after the poem has been read. Sharply observant, dry, savage and wholly authentic." Joolz Denby
