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25: 142: 377:- 'there's never been a point where I've set myself an agenda or a strategy. The love poems have just happened, appearing out of the blue and prompted by circumstances. They called and I responded'. 183:, Scarborough. He was made a Hawthornden Fellow in 1991 and was awarded a Travelling Fellowship to the US in 1994, spending most of his year in New England. He did research into 172:. The son of a miner, Parks grew up during the declining years of the industry - something which was to have a profound effect on his later work. His first collection of poems, 205:
He has taught creative writing at the universities of Sheffield, Oxford, Hull, and Leeds and was Writing Fellow at De Montfort University Leicester from 2012 to 2014.
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He was writer in residence at Gladstone's Library in 2012 and currently runs the Read to Write Project in Doncaster.
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was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award;
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Described by Chiron Review as 'the finest love poet of his generation', Parks was born in
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was published in 1986, the same year in which he received a Yorkshire Arts Award.
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is published by Calder Valley Poetry. His work is included in the Folio Society
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His versions of the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy -
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Versions of the North: Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry
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