Andy Croft

Who is Andy Croft?

Andy Croft is a writer, editor, and poet based in the north-east of England. His books include Red Letter Days, a history of British political fiction of the 1930s. Other books include Out of the Old Earth, A Weapon in the Struggle, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, Comrade Heart, After the Party, A Creative Approach to Teaching Rhythm and Rhyme and Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing. He has written seven novels and forty-two books for teenagers, mostly about football.

Books of poetry include Nowhere Special, Gaps Between Hills, Headland, Just as Blue, Great North, Comrade Laughter, Ghost Writer, Sticky, Three Men on the Metro and Nineteen Forty-eight. He has edited several poetry anthologies, including Red Sky at Night, North by North East, Not Just a Game, The Night Shift, Speaking English: Poems for John Lucas, Everything Flows: A Celebration of the Transporter Bridge in Poetry and A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for these Times by Divers Hands .

Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire.