The Third Passenger: Poems by Norton Hodges
BIOGRAPHY
Norton Hodges taught Modern Languages in secondary schools in England for 22 years. He also has an M.A. and a PhD in Language and Literacy in education. After taking medical retirement with M.E., he worked as an adult literacy tutor, exam invigilator and book reviewer but now spends his time writing. His poetry has been published by The Affectionate Punch, Apostrophe, Awen, The Black Rose, Borderlines, Cadenza, Connections (London), Connections (Whitstable), Crystal, Eclipse, em writing and music, Envoi, Exile, Fire, First Time, The Frogmore Papers, Global Tapestry Journal, The Interpreter's House, iota, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, Juju, Krax, Lateral Moves, Lexikon, Linkway magazine, Magma, Micropress Midlands Poetry, The New Cauldron, New Horizon, New London Writers, The New Writer, Poetry Nottingham International, Poetic Licence, Psychopoetica, Pulsar, Purple Patch, Roundyhouse, the Rue Bella, Sand, Sepia, Staple, still, Superfluity, Terrible Work, The Third Half, This is, Time Haiku, T.O.P.S., Understanding, Upstart!, Voice and Verse, Voyage, Words Worth and Working Title. His poems have appeared in several anthologies including 'The Art of Haiku 2000' and 'In The Spirit of Wilfred Owen' (2002). Some of his work has been digitised by the Poetry Library and can be found on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. and also on the Wild Honey Press website and the Snapshots Project (www.thedrunkenboat.com). His translation of the poem 'Sainte Anne' by the French poet Athanase Vantchev de Thracy is to be distributed to pilgrims at the basilica of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray in Brittany as well as in other Breton churches. His translations of other poems by Athanase Vantchev can be found at www.athanase.org and at www.PoetryPoem.com/athanase. His translations of the French poems of Théo Crassas can be found on http://users.otenet.gr/~teopoet/. Norton Hodges won the 1998 Milton Keynes Speakeasy Creative Writing Competition. He has completed an Advanced Poetry course with the Open College of the Arts. He has also written short stories and essays He lives in Oakham, Leics with Jude. His first poetry pamphlet, 'Letting The Light In', was published by Rutland Weekend Press in October 2004. His first reading was at the Pork Pie Library Leicester as part of the Leicester Literature Festival 2004. He has recently been awarded the Grand Prix International Solenzara de Poésie by a French jury from the Institut Solenzara.
March 2005
Norton Hodges taught Modern Languages in secondary schools in England for 22 years. He also has an M.A. and a PhD in Language and Literacy in education. After taking medical retirement with M.E., he worked as an adult literacy tutor, exam invigilator and book reviewer but now spends his time writing. His poetry has been published by The Affectionate Punch, Apostrophe, Awen, The Black Rose, Borderlines, Cadenza, Connections (London), Connections (Whitstable), Crystal, Eclipse, em writing and music, Envoi, Exile, Fire, First Time, The Frogmore Papers, Global Tapestry Journal, The Interpreter's House, iota, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, Juju, Krax, Lateral Moves, Lexikon, Linkway magazine, Magma, Micropress Midlands Poetry, The New Cauldron, New Horizon, New London Writers, The New Writer, Poetry Nottingham International, Poetic Licence, Psychopoetica, Pulsar, Purple Patch, Roundyhouse, the Rue Bella, Sand, Sepia, Staple, still, Superfluity, Terrible Work, The Third Half, This is, Time Haiku, T.O.P.S., Understanding, Upstart!, Voice and Verse, Voyage, Words Worth and Working Title. His poems have appeared in several anthologies including 'The Art of Haiku 2000' and 'In The Spirit of Wilfred Owen' (2002). Some of his work has been digitised by the Poetry Library and can be found on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. and also on the Wild Honey Press website and the Snapshots Project (www.thedrunkenboat.com). His translation of the poem 'Sainte Anne' by the French poet Athanase Vantchev de Thracy is to be distributed to pilgrims at the basilica of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray in Brittany as well as in other Breton churches. His translations of other poems by Athanase Vantchev can be found at www.athanase.org and at www.PoetryPoem.com/athanase. His translations of the French poems of Théo Crassas can be found on http://users.otenet.gr/~teopoet/. Norton Hodges won the 1998 Milton Keynes Speakeasy Creative Writing Competition. He has completed an Advanced Poetry course with the Open College of the Arts. He has also written short stories and essays He lives in Oakham, Leics with Jude. His first poetry pamphlet, 'Letting The Light In', was published by Rutland Weekend Press in October 2004. His first reading was at the Pork Pie Library Leicester as part of the Leicester Literature Festival 2004. He has recently been awarded the Grand Prix International Solenzara de Poésie by a French jury from the Institut Solenzara.
March 2005
