Cathy Grindod
Cathy Grindod - former Derbyshire Poet Laureate
Cathy Grindod was appointed the first Derbyshire poet laureate on National Poetry Day 2005.
Cathy Grindrod lives in Derbyshire and has been writing and performing poetry for a number of years, as well as teaching and co-ordinating a wide range of poetry projects and events.
Her recent collection The Sky, Head On, was published by Shoestring Press in November 2009, and her previous collection, Fighting Talk, was published by Headland Press in September 2005. A pamphlet collection, Still Breathing, was published by Five Leaves Press in March 2006.
In September 2007 we published Laureate Lines: poems from the first Derbyshire Poet Laureate Cathy Grindrod, a book featuring a number of the poems Cathy wrote during her time as laureate.
Copies are £7.99 and available from Derbyshire Libraries or from Alison Betteridge, email Alison at alison.betteridge@derbyshire.gov.uk.
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