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John Challis was born in London in 1984 and now lives in North Shields. His first pamphlet of poems, The Black Cab, was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2017, and was chosen by New Writing North as a 2019 Read Regional title. His first full collection, The Resurrectionists, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021, and highly commended in the ...
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John Challis is a poet, academic and critic. His first...
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John Challis is a poet, producer and editor. He was born in London in 1984 and is currently working on a first collection of poetry. In 2010 he was awarded AHRC funding to study for an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University where he was awarded a distinction.
I am a poet, editor and teacher. I have published poetry, essays, and reviews widely, and have written for the stage. I am the recipient of a Northern Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, and an Author’s Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors.
‘The Resurrectionists is the outstanding first full collection by the North East-based poet John Challis. These are engrossing and vivid poems that capture often disquieting little-told stories of London, full of narrative drive and a variety of voices that feel real and lived.’
‘The Resurrectionists is the outstanding first full collection by the North East-based poet John Challis. These are engrossing and vivid poems that capture often disquieting little-told stories of London, full of narrative drive and a variety of voices that feel real and lived.’
John Challis is a poet, academic and critic. His first pamphlet of poems, The Black Cab, was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2017.
Buy Now. The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis’s dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London’s veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that ...
