Andy Croft

English writer (born 1956)

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Andy Croft (born 1956) is an English writer, editor, poet and publisher based in North East England.[1] His books include Red Letter Days, a history of British political fiction of the 1930s.[2] 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.[1]

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.[1][3]

## Bibliography

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### Collections of poetry

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* Nowhere Special (1996)[4]
* Gaps Between Hills: Photographs (1996) with Mark Robinson and Dermot Blackburn[5]
* Great North: A Poem of the Great North Run (2001)[6]
* Just as Blue (2009)[7]
* Comrade Laughter (2004)[8]
* The Ghost Writer: A Novel in Verse (2008)[9]
* Sticky (2009)[10]
* Three Men on the Metro (2009) with W. N. Herbert and Paul Summers[11]
* 1948: A Novel in Verse (2012) with illustrations by Martin Rowson[12]
* Letters to Randall Swingler (Shoestring Press, 2017)[13]

### Anthologies of poetry

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* Red Sky at Night: an anthology of British socialist poetry (2003), with Adrian Mitchell[14]
* North by North East: the region's contemporary poetry (2006) with Cynthia Fuller[15]
* Not Just a Game: an anthology of sporting poems (2006) with Sue Dymoke[16]
* Speaking English: Poems for John Lucas (2007)[17]
* The Night Shift (2010) with Michael Baron and Jenny Swann[18]
* Everything Flows: A Celebration of the Transporter Bridge in Poetry (2012)[19]
* A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for these Times by Divers Hands (2015) with Nigel Thompson and George Baron[20]

### Other publications

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* smoke! an historical pageant (2004, Mudfog) - commissioned as part of the 150th anniversary of Middlesbrough.[21]
* Comrade Heart: A Life of Randall Swingler (2003), revised 2020 as The Years of Anger

## References

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1. ^ a b c "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).
2. ^ Christopher Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents, Harvard University Press, 2006, ISBN 0674021770 (p. 322).
3. ^ "About Smokestack Books". smokestack-books.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
4. ^ Croft, Andy (1996). Nowhere special. Newcastle upon Tyne: Flambard. ISBN 9781873226223. OCLC 35831270.
5. ^ Blackburn, Dermot; Croft, Andy; Robinson, Mark (1996). Gaps between hills: photographs. Stockton-on-Tees: Scratch. ISBN 9781897698105. OCLC 51762227.
6. ^ Croft, Andy (2001). Great north: a poem of the Great North Run. North Shields: Iron Press. ISBN 9780906228890. OCLC 47357114.
7. ^ Croft, Andy (2001). Just as blue. Hexham: Flambard. ISBN 9781873226445. OCLC 46601263.
8. ^ Croft, Andy (2004). Comrade laughter. Hexham: Flambard. ISBN 9781873226667. OCLC 645826078.
9. ^ Croft, Andy (2008). The ghost writer: a novel in verse. Nottingham: Five Leaves. ISBN 9781905512386. OCLC 173720902.
10. ^ Croft, Andy (2009). Sticky. Newcastle upon Tyne: Flambard Press. ISBN 9781906601058. OCLC 837904537.
11. ^ Croft, Andy; Herbert, W. N.; Summers, Paul (2009). Three men on the metro. Nottingham: Five Leaves Pub. ISBN 9781905512843. OCLC 837028493.
12. ^ Croft, Andy; Rowson, Martin (2012). 1948: a novel in verse. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 9781907869327. OCLC 793217371.
13. ^ Croft, Andy (2017). Letters to Randall Swingler. Shoestring Press. ISBN 9781910323847. OCLC 1000037797.
14. ^ Croft, Andy; Mitchell, Adrian (2003). Red sky at night: an anthology of British socialist poetry. Nottingham: Five Leaves. ISBN 9780907123491. OCLC 51622309.
15. ^ Fuller, Cynthia; Croft, Andy (2006). North by north-east: the region's contemporary poetry. Cullercoats, Northumberland: Iron Press. ISBN 9780906228937. OCLC 212204375.
16. ^ Croft, Andy; Dymoke, Sue (2006). Not just a game: an anthology of sporting poems. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 9781905512133. OCLC 85824026.
17. ^ Croft, Andy (2007). Speaking English: poems for John Lucas. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 9781905512126. OCLC 154708360.
18. ^ Baron, Michael; Croft, Andy; Swann, Jenny (2010). The night shift. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 9781905512584. OCLC 244314996.
19. ^ Croft, Andy (2012). Everything flows: a celebration of the transporter bridge in poetry. Middlesbrough: Middlesbrough Borough Council. ISBN 9780860830924. OCLC 858967262.
20. ^ Croft, Andy; Thompson, N. S.; Byron, George Gordon Byron (2015). A modern Don Juan: Cantos for these times by Divers Hands. Five Leaves. ISBN 9781910170045. OCLC 1062202730.
21. ^ Croft, Andy (2004). Smoke!. Place of publication not identified: Mudfog. ISBN 9781899503612. OCLC 947067829.

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* Andy Croft website
* Smokestack Books website

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