Edwin Stockdale was born in Chester in 1985. In 2007 he graduated from Lancaster University with a BA Hons in Creative Writing and Music. Since then he has worked in a bookshop, a café, and as a nursery nurse and teaching assistant. He now works as an Early Years Practitioner in a large community nursery just outside Chester. Poems have been widely published, including by the Coffee House, Drey (Red Squirrel Press), Ink sweat & tears, the Interpreter's House, Long Poem Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Scotland and Snakeskin. Edwin is a member of Chester Poets and North West Poets. He is proud to be published by Red Squirrel Press because of his father's immediate Northumbrian roots, and his mother's more distant Northumbrian heritage.

 

'Aventurine plunges us into the nineteenth century. The poet Edwin Stockdale enters the novels of Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, walks in their "dishevelled silence", pikcing up strands of narrative and unravels them. Stockdale has a strong, lyrical voice, which is equally at home in the natural world and in re-imagining the haunted gothic of Victorian sensibilities. Aventurine searches for what lies beyond, what is left unsaid.' - Katrina Naomi

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