Graham Burchell

GRAHAM BURCHELL has lived and worked in Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Tenerife, Mexico, France, Chile and the United States. He was a teacher from 1976 to 2003, with a B.Ed. in Art and Education. He became a full-time writer in 2004 and gained an M.A. in reative Writing from Bath Spa University in 2010. His poetry has appeared in most of the major UK poetry magazines and he has won, been placed or commended in many competitions, including 1st prize in the Red Shed Poetry Competition, 2018, 3rd place in Bridport 2017, runner-up in the 2016 BBC Proms poetry competition, 1st prize in the National Stanza Competition 2015 and 2012 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year. He was a Hawthornden fellow 2013. Now living in South Devon, he is active in the Devon poetry scene, chairperson of Moor Poets and one of the team running the Teignmouth Poetry Festival.
www.gburchell.com