Apocalypse

James Keery was born in Coleraine in 1958 and lives in Culcheth, near Warrington. He is married to Julie, with two children, Jennifer and Jack. He read English at Churchill College, Cambridge and has been teaching English in Wigan since 1980. He has published a collection of poems, That Stranger, The Blues (1996); edited the Collected Poems of Burns Singer (2001) and contributed to a number of recent magazines and books, including PN Review, Angel Exhaust and Resounding Dylan Thomas.

'The wealth of talent on offer is simply extraordinary... What Keery does show, regardless of labels, is a wealth of almost unknown work - work of such high standard that history books of poetry with their neat categories and vast omissions might need extra chapters that tease out the sheer quantity of good poems, rather than assuming that what has fallen through the cracks of time is best left there.'David Hackbridge Johnson