Andy Croft

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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

Morning Star, is director of the T-Junction International Poetry festival, and he runs Smokestack Books.[1][3]

Bibliography

Collections of poetry

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  1. ^
    ISBN 1611476429
    (pp. 333–4).
  2. ISBN 0674021770
    (p. 322).
  3. ^ "About Smokestack Books". smokestack-books.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  4. OCLC 35831270
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  5. OCLC 51762227
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  6. OCLC 47357114
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  7. OCLC 46601263
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  8. OCLC 645826078
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  9. OCLC 173720902
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  10. OCLC 837904537
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  11. OCLC 837028493
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  12. OCLC 793217371
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  13. OCLC 1000037797
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  14. OCLC 51622309
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  15. OCLC 212204375
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  16. OCLC 85824026
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  17. OCLC 154708360
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  18. OCLC 244314996
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  19. OCLC 858967262
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  20. OCLC 1062202730
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  21. OCLC 947067829
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