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Alan
Wickes was born in Northumberland. He studied History of Art
and English at Manchester and Open University. He now works as
a manager in Further Education. He is married, with three
children, and lives in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Alan enjoys travel, particularly around the Mediterranean, dabbles
in gardening and enjoys wine and conversation.
He has always read and enjoyed poetry. Over the past ten years he
has become particularly interested in writing metrical verse
adopting a modern idiom within formal verse settings.
Alan Wickes is a
moderator at Sonnet Central, an on-line poetry workshop dedicated
the development of the sonnet form.
His
work has appeared in Aesthetica, Znine, Worm, Loch Raven Review, The
Chimera, Envoi and Raintown Review. His sonnets have won Ware Poets national competition twice, in 2004 and 2009.
Cannon Poets awarded first prize to his poem 'Parting Shots' in
November 2006.
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