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. 

 
In November 2007 his chapbook, 'Prospero at Breakfast' was published by Modern Metrics. You can order the book from the publishers or email Alan directly at dr.wu@hotmail.co.uk

 

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