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Neil Leadbeater

b.1951

Neil Leadbeater
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Neil Leadbeater is an author, poet, essayist and critic, born in Wolverhampton, England and now based in Scotland. He was educated at Repton and is an English graduate from the University of London. His work has been published widely in anthologies and journals both in the UK and abroad.

He has published half a dozen full collections of poetry and some pamphlets, and an e-book, Grease-banding The Apple Trees is available as a PDF from Raffaelli Editore, Rimini.

Leadbeater is a member of the International Association of Writers and the Federation of Writers (Scotland). He is a regular reviewer for the on-line magazine Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement) (USA), an external contributor for the UK to the Romanian journal, Orizont Literar Contemporan (Contemporary Literary Horizon) based in Bucharest and a participant in two translation projects associated with the University of Bucharest.

His work has been translated into Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.

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Selected Bibliography

Hoarding Conkers at Hailes Abbey (Littoral Press, 2010)
Librettos for the Black Madonna (White Adder Press, 2011)
The Worcester Fragments (Original Plus, 2013)
The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives (Poetry Space, 2014)
The Fragility of Moths (Bibliotheca Universalis, 2014)
Ports of Call / Escale (Iaşi, Romania: Editura Pim, 2016)
Sleeve Notes (Iaşi, Romania: Editura Pim, 2016)
Finding the River Horse (Littoral Press, 2017)
Punching Cork Stoppers (Original Plus, 2018)
The Engine-room of Europe (short stories) (Iaşi, Romania: Editura Pim, 2018)
Penn Fields (Littoral Press, 2019)
River Hoard (India: Cyberwit.net, 2019)
The Gloucester Fragments (Littoral Press, 2022)

Further Information

https://www.thepoetmagazine.org/interview-with-neil-leadbeater

https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/author/neilleadbeater

https://oaji.net/articles/2020/5411-1583232181.pdf

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Publications about Neil Leadbeater
Publications by Neil Leadbeater

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