| About André Mangeot
and Andrew Frolish
André Mangeot
is a professional charity fundraiser who lives and works in
Cambridge
. His poetry and
short stories have appeared in many magazines and journals including
The Times Literary Supplement,
Daily Express and
London
Magazine.
In
recent years he has won prizes in the Bridport and Wigton/Scottish
National poetry competitions and been shortlisted for the TLS/Blackwells
prize. He is a member of the performance group Joy
of Six (
www.joyofsix.co.uk ) which has played at venues across
England
and
Wales
, and in
New York
.
A
short selection of his work, Natural Causes (
Shoestring, 2003) is now in its second
edition. His
first full-length
collection, Mixer,
was published in May 2005 by Egg Box Press and a book of short
stories, A Little Javanese, by Salt in 2008.
Comments
on his work:
‘Mixer’
is a glorious book.-
he
looks through a glass (or bottle) brightly at so many aspects of
humanity ... great premise, excellent execution.
- Alicia Ostriker
There
is an element of Raymond Carver about these poems, in their
humanity, their poignancy and their story-telling tightness, but
there is also something open-weave, light-of-touch and inviting of
performance in them.
- George Szirtes
His
eye is acute – for poverty, violence, the cruelties of love …
His poetry shakes the ground, as only good poetry does.
- Prof R.V Bailey in Envoi
Andrew
Frolish
was born in Sheffield and lived there until going to
Lancaster
University
to study Politics. He is a Deputy Headteacher of a primary school in
Suffolk
.
He has been writing
poetry for several years. His poems have been published
in PN Review, Acumen, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter's
House, Pulsar, Monomyth, First Offense, Envoi, Agenda Broadsheet and
the Daily Express. Andrew
won the Suffolk Poetry Society Crabbe Memorial prize in 2006, and
was awarded second prize in the same competition in 2007. He won a
prize in the Kings Lynn open poetry competition in 2007. In June
2007, a selection of Andrew’s poems was published in Carcanet's
latest New Poetries anthology.
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