“One of the best poets in the country...” - Jimmy McGovern. 

“Kevin provides that extra wow factor." Times Educational Supplement   

Have also worked as a writer in Schools for, amongst others, the Poetry Society, Sefton EAZ and Top of the Tree as well as assorted community arts projects, local libraries etc. 

Currently completing a project working with looked after children for Whitewood and Fleming.  

I have also devised on-line writing frames for Scholastic, written articles and designed worksheets for Literacy Time and The Literacy Club.

PUBLISHING CREDITS: 

The Trouble with Wings (Toulouse Press, 1982); 

The Waiting Game (Poetry Minibooks, 1985); 

Mirror, Mirror (Other Publications, 1993); 

The Bear (Blue Cage Books, 1995); 

In with the Shrink (Driftwood Publications 2003)

I Killed George Formby (Erbacce Press, 2008)

I also write for children and has had work included in 30 anthologies, the most recent being :  

Love, Hate and my Best Mate (Wayland, 2004); 

The Works 5 (Macmillan, 2006); 

The Poetry Store (Hodder, 2006); 

Scary Poems to make you Shiver (OUP, 2006); 

The Works 6 (Macmillan, 2006); 

Poems About Water (Evans, 2007)

The World at Our Feet (Macmillan, 2010)  

Kevin has also had poems, stories and writing strategies featured in Literacy Time and Child Education (Scholastic).       

As Editor : 

Beautify the Nation (Toulouse Press, 1992); 

Perfectly Acceptable (Liverpool Libraries,1992); 

The Isle is Full of Noises (Caliban Books, 2002); 

Script editor of From Dawn to Dusk by Kevin Paton – premiered at the Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool, Oct 17, 1997.

Commissioned by Macmillan to provide a detailed review of translations from the Armenian of poems by Razmik Davoyan

BROADCASTING : Poems and short stories on Radio City, Radio Four, Radio Five, Radio Merseyside, Red Rose Radio, World Service, B.B.C TV; Nothing Rhymes with Poets (Liverpool Big Screen, 2005)

VIDEO : The Lakes by Jimmy McGovern (B.B.C. Videos, 1998).           

RECORDING :The Contraries (Third Stone Records, 1996); Poetry Now (Sampler C.D. 1996) 

PERFORMANCE : Readings in both England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the United States. 

AWARDS :  Joint winner of the Writing Together Teacher Writer Award, 2006.

*FULL LIST TO DATE 

1990 : Creepy Poems; Funny Poems; Childrens Poems (Usborne)

1991 : Green Poetry; Science Poetry; Animal Poetry (Wayland)

You Just Can’t Win (Blackie)

1992 : Wordplay (BBC Publications)

1999  : We are not Alone; Unzip Your Lips Again (Macmillan)

2000 : The Works (Macmillan)

2002 :  Out of Order (Evans); Watch Out There’s A Ghost About       (OUP); Wicked Poems (Bloomsbury)

2003 : Hubble Bubble (Hodder); Poems to Annoy Your Parents (OUP); Loony Letters and Daft Diaries (Macmillan)

2004 : Poems to Take on Holiday (OUP); Love, Hate and My Best Mate (Wayland)

2006 : Funny Poems for Christmas (Scholastic); The Works 5 (Macmillan); The Poetry Store (Hodder); Scary Poems to Make You Shiver (OUP)

2007 : The Elements in Poetry – Poems About Water (Evans); Reader’s Guide (Pearson-Longman)

2010 : The World at Our Feet (Macmillan)

Due this year : Puppy Poems (Macmillan); Junior Secondary English (Pearson Education – Asia)

From  2006 onwards poems, stories, articles, lesson plans in Literacy Time & Child Education (Scholastic) and The Literacy Club.