The Writers of Wales Database

GIMBLETT, JOHN

47 Graig Park Avenue, Malpas, Newport, NP20 6HA
Tel: (01633) 856113
Email: jgimblett.@freeuk.com
Website: www.johngimblett.com, http://wegodownslowlyrising.blogspot.co.uk/

Poet, short story and travelogue writer. Also novelist and reviewer. Born in Newport. Travelled extensively in India and South East Asia, as well as Europe/West Asia. Edited and published a small press magazine, Frames, in the 1980s. Has published a number of poetry collections and has had poetry/short stories, articles published in Poetry Wales, Anglo-Welsh Review, New Welsh Review, Planet etc. Has also read on BBC Radio Wales, and for Glamorgan and Gwent/Newport Libraries. Also paints, has exhibited. Interested in art/literature collaboration.

Selected Publications:
Shadows and Fireflies (Stride, 1985)
Inishfree, Co. Donegal (Stride, 1986)
Water (Making Waves, 1988)
Mister John: Poems in India (Stride, 1991)
Magic Millions (Trombone, 1994)
Twice (Lung Gom Press, 1995)
Monkey (Cinnamon, 2009)
We Go Down Slowly Rising (Torana Press, 2012)
The Boy Who Zoomed (Torana, 2012)

Contributed to:
First Cuts (contributor) (Paramour Press, 1985)
Images for Africa (contributor) (Wateraid, 1988)
The Serendipity Caper (contributor) (Stride, 1994)
A Wasted Life: Selected Poems (contributor) (Toranao, 2001)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Read and discuss own work - poetry, prose or both
2. Workshops
3. Children’s storytimes

AGE RANGE: Any!
AVAILABILITY: Evenings, any other time with sufficient notice; preferably within a 50 mile radius of Newport, but negotiable