Mick North

Mick North is a poet, writer and freelance arts worker who manages the New Writing Cumbria project on behalf of Eden Arts. He has worked in the arts for over 25 years; from 1990 until 2008 he was Arts Development Manager for Carlisle City Council, running the Arts Unit at Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery. Prior to that he was Director of Lancaster Literature Festival and worked as a fundraiser for the Dukes Theatre and Ludus Dance Company, also in Lancaster.   He has served on the management committee of the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank and was a founding officer of the Northern (now National) Association of Writers in Education.   As a poet, he received a major Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1986 and has published a pamphlet - Throp's Wife (Jackson's Arm, 1986) - and one full-length collection, The Pheasant Plucker's Son (Littlewood Arc, 1990). His work has been widely published in magazines and in several anthologies, including The New Lakes Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 1991) and An accessible paradise (East Cumbria Countryside Project, 2007).

Homepage: http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk