George Marsh

George Marsh
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Biography

As well as editing the poetry websites Red Thread Haiku Sangha and In the Moonlight a Worm Silently Drills a Chestnut, George Marsh is the author of Teaching Through Poetry: Writing and the Drafting Process, published by Hodder and Stoughton (London) in 1988. George has taught in schools, and in the teacher training departments and in the literature departments of the University of Portsmouth (UK) and University College Chichester. He has also run poetry development programs in secondary schools and was Writer-in-Residence at Kingston Prison and Writer-in-Residence to the centenary of Portsmouth Football Club. He has also been a single parent, a Zen Buddhist, a sailor and a song lyricist.

First posted: April 17, 2011

Last modified: April 18, 2016