Authors profile

Andy Croft

Andy Croft lives in Middlesbrough. Among his books are Red Letter Days, Out of the Old Earth, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, A Weapon in the Struggle, Comrade Heart, Holme and Away and thirty-seven books for teenagers, mostly about football. His books of poetry include Nowhere Special, Gaps Between Hills (with Mark Robinson), Headland, Just as Blue, Great North and Comrade Laughter. He has edited four anthologies of poetry, Speaking English, Red Sky at Night (with Adrian Mitchell), North by North East (with Cynthia Fuller) and Not Just a Game (with Sue Dymoke). He writes a monthly poetry column in the Morning Star and runs Smokestack Books.