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Andrew Staniland has dedicated his
life to the art of writing poetry in the Romantic tradition of English
poetry. He is a contemporary Romantic poet, whose poems are classical in
style and whose source of inspiration is contemporary spiritual practice. Andrew was born in Sheffield in
1959. He studied Politics at the University of Durham. Since graduating in
1980, he has worked part time, devoting most of his time to writing, to his
imagination, to meditation and inner exploration. He matured as a poet in his
mid-forties, writing two collections, two story poems and two prose- poem
novels, as well as editing three books of the best of his work from the
previous twenty years. He has since completed a new collection, The Perennial Poetry (2011). Andrew has self-published a number
of books, in commercial and private editions. His poems have been published
in various magazines and anthologies. He has had a play performed on the
London Fringe. And he has written and directed a short film which was
screened at various festivals. Andrew
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