Derek Adams : poet, photographer & writer of short stories.


photo by Charlotte Adams

born in Walthamstow, London. 1957
lives in Hullbridge, Essex
Co-ordinator of the Essex Poetry Festival & a member of the Southend Poetry Group

Available for readings & workshops


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has published three collections of poetry: "unconcerned but not indifferent - the life of Man Ray", 2006 Ninth Arrondissement Press, "Everyday Objects, Chance Remarks", 2005, Littoral Pressand "Postcards to Olympus", 2004 Poetry Monthly Press.

poems have appeared in the following magazines or ezines :
Acumen, Apostrophe, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Boomerang, Black October, Chimera, Citizen 32, Clean Sheets, Comrades,The Delinquent, Dream People, The-errorist, Erosha, Envoi, The Interpreters House, Krax, LabLit, Legend, Littoral, Magma, Maintenant3 (USA), Moonstone, Nth Position, Obsessed With Pipework, Orbis, Other Poetry,P.F.S.Post, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham International, The Poet Tree, Presence, Purple Patch, Read The Music, Red Lamp, Rialto, Rising, Seam, Smith's Knoll, Snakeskin, Sol, South, Southend Poetry, SpinDrifter (USA), Strange Horizons, Stride Magazine, Tears In The Fence, Trespass, T.S.Review, Verse Libre, Visionary Tongue, Welcome, The Whistle House, Winedark Sea (NZ),The Wolf, Writers Muse, Zafusy.

and in these anthologies :
Genius Floored (Soaring Penguin 2009)
Losing the Edge
(Ragged Raven Press 2009)
Buzz (Templar Poetry 2008)
Lifemarks: Poetry about the big events of life (Cub. December 2007)
Solitaire (Templar Poetry 2007)
Velvet Avalanche: a collection of erotic poetry (Satjar Projects 2006)
The Sleepless Sands (Earlyworks Press 2006)
A Dress of Nettles (Ragged Raven Press 2004)
Off The Wall - Anthology of Comic Verse (2003)
The Sensitively Thin Bill of the Shag
(Biscuit Publishing 2003)
Saturday Night Desperate
(Ragged Raven Press 2003)
Uno (Comrades Press 2002))

short stories in :
House of Pain, Monas Hieroglyphica, Udolpho,Visionary Tongue, Writers Muse.

performed at :
The Poetry Cafe Covent Garden: The Troubadour Earls Court: Cabaret Voltaire Colchester: The Essex Poetry Festival: The Leigh Folk Festival: Nottingham Poetry Society: The Palace Theatre (Westcliff): Southend Library: The Southend Poetry Group: Club Riga, Westcliff: The Sundown (Southend): Waterstones (Southend): St Benets Church, Blackfriars EC4: Colchester Arts Centre: Shakespeare and Company, Paris: Oxfam Bookshop, 91 Marylebone High St, W1U : poetrywivenhoe: Rayleigh Arts Festival: Derwent Poetry Festival: Lumen Poetry Series: Camden Poetry Series: Ride the Word: I Scream Sunday: Howl
"As a live performer he mixes depth and subtle humour " Jamie Spracklen in Visionary Tongue Magazine

performed on :
Poetry Please, BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio Essex
& can be heard reading some poems on www.myspace.com/derekadamspoet


led workshops at :
The Essex Poetry Festival, London South Bank University, The Southend Poetry Group.

photographic exhibitions:
Triple Vision (with John Downs & Gary Summons), The Ilford Gallery, Tottenham Street, London W1 1988.
In Pursuit of the Hirsuit (with Paul Ruddock), The Natural History Museum, London. August - November 2004.
Traced in the Shadows - Ways of Looking at Poets.
Poetry Cafe, Betterton St. London WC2, 1st-30th September, 2005.

The Gallery, Chelmsford Central Library, Essex, 1st-30th October, 2006.

 A.N.P.Q   4 Avenue Marcellin Albert, 34800, Péret, France 20 June – 25 July 2009
traced in the shadows: derek adams: ways of looking at poets, photography - tanguy flot, tableaux
Photographs of contemporary British poets contrast with images cut from fabric and built with layers of hand-worked clay. Two artists
 whose work reveals a shared perception of the essence of the image
 http://www.anpq.org/


MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/derekadamspoet

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