John Stocks

Bewildering Stories biography

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Recent work has appeared, or is scheduled to appear, in a wide variety of influential magazines in the United Kingdom, including The Coffee House magazine, Pennine Platform, Coffee House, Littoral, The Other, Cambridge University review, Manifold. Poetry Monthly, Interlude, Harlequin, The Black Rose and Carillon.

I am currently working on a collaborative first novel, “Lost Diaries,” which should be completed early next year. I am also writing short stories; one of which has won the Carillon magazine short story competition. A number of poems have been selected for publication in national collections, and my poem “Moon Dreams” was recently short-listed for the national poetry anthology. “Alicia’s Diary” has been nominated for the Pushcart prize 2007.

A small number of poems are currently being transformed into short films as part of a film poetry project, and my poem “Alicia’s Diary” was recently performed in Sheffield Cathedral as part of a Multimedia poetry presentation. Free time is spent walking on windswept Northern hills, working on my photography and drinking too much fine wine and real ale.

Bewildering Stories bibliography

Poetry
Alicia’s Diary Awe In the Blue Moon. Thursday Solstice Eve Dreaming of Nina, First Lady of Fitzrovia Hardwick Village War Memorial Aunt Beth’s Photographs It Is Raining Night Apples By Lambeth Bridge May Dreams Last Train for Edinburgh Ruins by Jacob’s Ladder The Six-Thirty for St Pancras St Paul’s Café Utopia Shireoaks Family Funeral Night Sky The Charcoal Burner A Song at Twilight Sheffield Flood Angel Dog Days For Amnesty Initiation And the Sparrows Coughed	The Letter Norwegian Sunset To Liverpool Altered States All My Dreams Endgame Left Unsaid On Slapton Sands Switch World’s End Notes on an Elderly Couple in Church A Poem for a Recession George Fete To Waverly To Wentworth Place Woolacombe Sands: Evening Lincoln Cathedral, 1312-2009 Summer Breathe Imagined You Iona Ethie McLean New Year’s Eve Plath R is for Rocket, S is for Space: Ray Bradbury

Poetry

Alicia’s Diary
Awe
In the Blue Moon. Thursday
Solstice Eve
Dreaming of Nina, First Lady of Fitzrovia
Hardwick Village War Memorial
Aunt Beth’s Photographs
It Is Raining
Night Apples
By Lambeth Bridge
May Dreams
Last Train for Edinburgh
Ruins by Jacob’s Ladder
The Six-Thirty for St Pancras
St Paul’s Café
Utopia
Shireoaks
Family Funeral
Night Sky
The Charcoal Burner
A Song at Twilight
Sheffield Flood
Angel
Dog Days
For Amnesty
Initiation
And the Sparrows Coughed

The Letter
Norwegian Sunset
To Liverpool
Altered States
All My Dreams
Endgame
Left Unsaid
On Slapton Sands
Switch
World’s End
Notes on an Elderly Couple in Church
A Poem for a Recession
George
Fete
To Waverly
To Wentworth Place
Woolacombe Sands: Evening
Lincoln Cathedral, 1312-2009
Summer
Breathe
Imagined You
Iona
Ethie McLean
New Year’s Eve
Plath
R is for Rocket, S is for Space: Ray Bradbury