Reaching for a Stranger

by Michael Tolkien

Michael Tolkien was born in Birmingham in 1943, brought up in rural S. Oxfordshire and N. Yorkshire, and studied for degrees in Classics and English Literature at St. Andrews and Oxford. He has lived in Rudand since 1968, retiring in 1994 after many years in secondary school teaching. His verse and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and his first collection, Learning Not to Touch, was published as a runner-up in the 1996 Red-beck Poetry Competition. One reviewer knows when to stop and can create a riddle without being obscure. Yet the careful art never loses sight of what poetry's feeling, love, loss, celebration and a little mystery' In 1998 he toured as a New Voice for E. Midlands Arts. Redbeck plan to publish his first full collection, Outstripping Gravity, in 2000.

20 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999