User:Michaelbrett

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About the Author

Internet Poetry Workshop, Guest Editor 2009

(Sudeep Sen, Internet Poetry Workshop Guest Editor, 2006)

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Michael Brett attended Adrian Henri's Arvon class in 1976. He won the Iolaire Poetry Prize in 1983 and is one of the 2010 Winners of the Sampad (South Asian Arts) International Writing Competition (his two poems, London, Bangladesh and London- from Aqaba to Zem Zem will be published in the Sampad anthology Journeys, October 2010). His poem "The Sunken Cathedral" is in the May 31st edition of America magazine.

Random House USA and UK are including some of his poems in the Ebury Book 'Heroes: 100 Poems from the New Generation of War Poets,' edited by Carol Ann Duffy among others. It is due to be published in September.

During the Civil War in the Former Yugoslavia, Michael worked in the Press Section of the Information Centre of Bosnia-Herzegovina in London, promoting US and NATO military intervention in the Civil War in the Former Yugoslavia. He believed in the ideal of a multi ethnic Bosnian state and that it would stop the widespread massacres of civilians that were taking placing at the time.

Michael was born in Accra, Ghana in 1955. He was educated in England at Cranbrook School and the University of Reading, where he read English. He worked in the City of London for over ten years, has a background in financial journalism, and continued to write throughout that period.

He is currently Head of English at a school in South London.

''Michael Brett turns edgy metropolitan experience into beauty and wit.' Dr Thomas M Woodman, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and American Literature, University of Reading.

'A unique and compelling odyssey which I would thoroughly recommend.' Richard Wachman, columnist for The Observer, on an unpublished book of poetry.

Web Sites which feature Michael's Work:

www.warpoetry.co.uk War Poetry and Anti-war Poetry. The wide selection of contemporary war poetry on this website is vigorous, moving, opinionated and heart-felt. It is by both soldiers and civilians. -- David Roberts (Editor)

Sampad International Writing Competition Details of the Sampad International Writing Competition (deadline 31.02.2009) Journeys... a real or imagined journey, back to your roots, homeland, or a journey of the heart.

America Magazine http://www.whyareweiniraq.com/author/author0086.htm

Author's Web Site: www.warpoetry.co.uk/Michael_Brett_Poet_08.html

Author's Web Site: www.purplepoets.com/brett.html