ANDREW BLAKEMORE Biography

Andrew Blakemore BA Hons was born in 1966. The youngest of three sons, Andrew always had a passion for art and music. He began to write songs and verse. Andrew graduated in Music in the year 1999, having studied with the Open University. He then turned his hand to writing poetry. Some of which were published in his local church newsletter and were well received. This positive feedback encouraged him to keep writing. Andrew has now written well over 1000 poems. In 2007, he published 'The Wonder is You' a complete anthology of his poems. This book features all of his completed works up until the end of the year 2006. It contains 440 poems in total. In the year 2007 Andrew was made a featured poet with forwardpress with his poem 'I wrote her name upon the sand' chosen as their poem of the month for July. In 2009 Andrew published a collection of poems called 'Aurora' and it contains 423 new works. In 2012 he published further collections of poems called 'Reflections' 'Evening Skies' 'Riddian Bridge, 'Willow Strands' 'Rest with Me' and 'Cotton Clouds' All of the titles are available on Amazon. If you wish you may follow Andrew on twitter ablakemorepoet