Andy Croft
Andy Croft (born 1956) is a writer, editor, and poet based in the north-east of England. His books include "Red Letter Days", a history of British political fiction of the 1930s. Other books 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. 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.