Andrew Forster – Homecoming

Live Encounters Magazine  Andrew Forster Homecoming Volume Three December 2015

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Homecoming by Andrew Forster, Poet, co-editor of the online magazine The Compass, researching for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, in ecopoetry, and administers the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets.

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Andrew Forster is originally from South Yorkshire but he lived in Scotland for twenty years before moving to Cumbria in 2008. He has published three full-length collections of poetry, two with Flambard Press, ‘Fear of Thunder’ (2007) and ‘Territory’ (2010), and ‘Homecoming’ with Smith Doorstop (2015). ‘Fear of Thunder’ was shortlisted for the 2008 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and two poems, ‘Horse Whisperer’ and ‘Brothers’, appear in the AQA GCSE syllabus. He has worked in Literature Development for 17 years and until recently was Literature Officer at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. He is co-editor of the online magazine The Compass. He is currently researching for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, in ecopoetry, and administers the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets.

www.andrewforsterpoems.blogspot.co.uk
www.thecompassmagazine.co.uk
Twitter @andrewfpoetry

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