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Andy Croft

{{Short description|English writer (born 1956)}}

{{Other people|Andrew Croft}}

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Andy Croft (born 1956) is an English writer, editor, poet and publisher based in North East England."About the Contributors", in Edward J. Carvalho (ed.), Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, {{ISBN|1611476429}} (pp. 333–4). His books include Red Letter Days, a history of British political fiction of the

1930s.Christopher Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents, Harvard University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0674021770}} (p. 322). Other books written or edited by Croft include Out of the Old Earth, A Weapon in the Struggle, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, Comrade Heart, After the Party, A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme and Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing. He has written seven novels and 42 books for teenagers, mostly about football.

Writing residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire. He has given many poetry readings, including readings in Paris, Moscow, Potsdam, Sofia, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, New York and London's Poetry International. He writes a regular poetry column for the Morning Star, is director of the T-Junction International Poetry festival, and he runs Smokestack Books.{{cite web |title=About Smokestack Books |url=https://smokestack-books.co.uk/about.php |website=smokestack-books.co.uk |access-date=5 April 2023}}

Bibliography

= Collections of poetry =

  • Nowhere Special (1996){{Cite book|title=Nowhere special|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=1996|publisher=Flambard|isbn=9781873226223|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|language=English|oclc=35831270}}
  • Gaps Between Hills: Photographs (1996) with Mark Robinson and Dermot Blackburn{{Cite book|title=Gaps between hills: photographs|last1=Blackburn|first1=Dermot|last2=Croft|first2=Andy|last3=Robinson|first3=Mark|date=1996|publisher=Scratch|isbn=9781897698105|location=Stockton-on-Tees|language=English|oclc=51762227}}
  • Great North: A Poem of the Great North Run (2001){{Cite book|title=Great north: a poem of the Great North Run|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2001|publisher=Iron Press|isbn=9780906228890|location=North Shields|language=English|oclc=47357114}}
  • Just as Blue (2009){{Cite book|title=Just as blue|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2001|publisher=Flambard|isbn=9781873226445|location=Hexham|language=English|oclc=46601263}}
  • Comrade Laughter (2004){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XFlAAAAMAAJ|title=Comrade laughter|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2004|publisher=Flambard|location=Hexham|isbn=9781873226667|language=English|oclc=645826078}}
  • The Ghost Writer: A Novel in Verse (2008){{Cite book|title=The ghost writer: a novel in verse|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2008|publisher=Five Leaves|isbn=9781905512386|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=173720902}}
  • Sticky (2009){{Cite book|title=Sticky|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2009|publisher=Flambard Press|isbn=9781906601058|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|language=English|oclc=837904537}}
  • Three Men on the Metro (2009) with W. N. Herbert and Paul Summers{{Cite book|title=Three men on the metro|last1=Croft|first1=Andy|last2=Herbert|first2=W. N.|last3=Summers|first3=Paul|date=2009|publisher=Five Leaves Pub|isbn=9781905512843|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=837028493}}
  • 1948: A Novel in Verse (2012) with illustrations by Martin Rowson{{Cite book|title=1948: a novel in verse|last1=Croft|first1=Andy|last2=Rowson|first2=Martin|date=2012|publisher=Five Leaves Publications|isbn=9781907869327|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=793217371}}
  • Letters to Randall Swingler (Shoestring Press, 2017){{Cite book|title=Letters to Randall Swingler|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2017|publisher=Shoestring Press |isbn=9781910323847|language=English|oclc=1000037797}}

= Anthologies of poetry =

  • Red Sky at Night: an anthology of British socialist poetry (2003), with Adrian Mitchell{{Cite book|title=Red sky at night: an anthology of British socialist poetry|last1=Croft|first1=Andy|last2=Mitchell|first2=Adrian|date=2003|publisher=Five Leaves|isbn=9780907123491|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=51622309}}
  • North by North East: the region's contemporary poetry (2006) with Cynthia Fuller{{Cite book|title=North by north-east: the region's contemporary poetry|last1=Fuller|first1=Cynthia|last2=Croft|first2=Andy|date=2006|publisher=Iron Press|isbn=9780906228937|location=Cullercoats, Northumberland|language=English|oclc=212204375}}
  • Not Just a Game: an anthology of sporting poems (2006) with Sue Dymoke{{Cite book|title=Not just a game: an anthology of sporting poems|last1=Croft|first1=Andy|last2=Dymoke|first2=Sue|date=2006|publisher=Five Leaves Publications|isbn=9781905512133|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=85824026}}
  • Speaking English: Poems for John Lucas (2007){{Cite book|title=Speaking English: poems for John Lucas|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2007|publisher=Five Leaves Publications|isbn=9781905512126|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=154708360}}
  • The Night Shift (2010) with Michael Baron and Jenny Swann{{Cite book|title=The night shift|last1=Baron|first1=Michael|last2=Croft|first2=Andy|last3=Swann|first3=Jenny|date=2010|publisher=Five Leaves Publications|isbn=9781905512584|location=Nottingham|language=English|oclc=244314996}}
  • Everything Flows: A Celebration of the Transporter Bridge in Poetry (2012){{Cite book|title=Everything flows: a celebration of the transporter bridge in poetry|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2012|publisher=Middlesbrough Borough Council|isbn=9780860830924|location=Middlesbrough|language=English|oclc=858967262}}
  • A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for these Times by Divers Hands (2015) with Nigel Thompson and George Baron{{Cite book|title=A modern Don Juan: Cantos for these times by Divers Hands|last1=Croft|first1=Andy|last2=Thompson|first2=N. S.|last3=Byron|first3=George Gordon Byron|date=2015|publisher=Five Leaves |isbn=9781910170045|language=English|oclc=1062202730}}

= Other publications =

  • smoke! an historical pageant (2004, Mudfog) - commissioned as part of the 150th anniversary of Middlesbrough.{{Cite book|title=Smoke!.|last=Croft|first=Andy|date=2004|publisher=Mudfog|isbn=9781899503612|location=Place of publication not identified|language=English|oclc=947067829}}
  • Comrade Heart: A Life of Randall Swingler (2003), revised 2020 as [https://www.routledge.com/The-Years-of-Anger-The-Life-of-Randall-Swingler/Croft/p/book/9780367344764 The Years of Anger]

References

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External links

  • [http://andy-croft.co.uk/ Andy Croft website]
  • [http://www.smokestack-books.co.uk/ Smokestack Books website]

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