Dr Charles Bennett

Book Publications

May 2007 How to Make a Woman Out of Water. Enitharmon.

May 2002 Wintergreen. Headland Press (click here for review).

April 2000 The Mermaid Room. Crocus Press, Manchester. Themed collection which won the North West Poetry Prize.

August 1999 William Wordsworth's Socks. Hawthorn Press, Norfolk. Limited edition with illustrations.

May 1998 The Storm Bell. Hawthorn Press, Norfolk. Chapbook collection of poems - later editions have illustrations.


Publication in Anthologies

2007 'Porthgwarra.' Lifemarks. Cub Publishing, ed. Jo Bell & Arthur Gardner
2004 'The Drowned Radio.' Radio Waves. Enitharmon, ed. Sean Street.
2004 'Object Lessons.' Dress of Nettles. Ragged Raven.
2003 'Nothing.' Peace Poems. Crocus (Commonword), ed. Kalu, Kenna & Khan.
2003 'How to Make a Woman Out of Water.' Saturday Night Desperate. Ragged Raven.
1999 'Bell.' The New Exeter Book of Riddles. Enitharmon, ed. Crossley-Holland & Sail.


Academic Publications & Critical Reviews

English Studies. 'Current Literature: Poetry'. I write a annual review of contemporary poetry.

'The Use of Memory: On Heaney's Stations.' Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry. Editions Rodopi, ed. Westendorp & Mallinson. 1995


Magazines & Readings

I've had over 125 poems in over 50 poetry magazines since 1997. In 2007 I had poems in The Shop, Poetry London, Iota and Magma, as well as on-line publication in the Literary London Journal. 'Snow Hare' was the poem for the day on 28th November on the Poetry Daily website (www.poems.com) In 2007 I gave 10 readings at a variety of venues including Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Runnymede Literature Festival, Birmingham New Generation Artists Festival and The Vienna Poetry Festival.


Other

I've made 3 short films for the BBC about the poems I wrote for a Herefordshire orchard, a project for which I was awarded a major grant by The Arts Council. I've contributed to 'Life-Lines', an Oxfam Poetry CD, and I've also been the Virtual Poet-in-Residence for the National Library for the Blind.