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Stewart Henderson (poet) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stewart Henderson is a poet and broadcaster. He was born in Liverpool. He writes for both adults and children. The Church Times has said of him: 'What Michael Morpurgo has done for children's fiction, Henderson has done for poetry'[1]

Work
As a poet he has been widely anthologized and his works have been set texts at GCSE and at Key Stage 3 and 2 in primary schools. His poems, which are often humorous, sometimes adopt the perspective of a child struggling to understand more about their place in the universe[2]. His best selling Who Left Grandad At The Chipshop? was short listed for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards[3]. Other works include: All Things Weird and Wonderful. The Sunday Times has described his children’s poetry as ‘essential reading’[4]. .

He has had a long-standing song-writing partnership with BBC Music Award winner, Martyn Joseph. The pair appear together occasionally at the Greenbelt Festival and on tour. Bob Harris on Radio 2 has praised the 'outstanding lyrical intelligence' of the songs.

Henderson is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, where he has presented Questions, Questions since 2006. He has presented or participated in From Our Own Correspondent, Pick Of The Week, Broadcasting House, Saturday Live and PM. He has also been responsible for various social and narrative documentaries for the network such as From Hairnets To Goalnets[5], the story of Britain’s first women’s football team. Other programmes include Poetry in Politics and the educational series Wide Awake At Bedtime[6]. Made on location in Israel his programme The Holy Fire[7] won the Jerusalem Radio Award for Best Feature in 2006.

Biography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/saturdaylive/2006/12/stewart_henderson.html http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/contributors/stewart-henderson/ http://lion.eden.co.uk/authordetail.php?author_id=22