Norman Warwick, formerly a freelance journalist in the music industry, is now a Rochdale based poet, writer and broadcaster. When studying for his BA at The University of Leeds as a mature student, he learned to argue that the works of his heroes like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Stewart and Bruce Sprinsteen could talk to the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Donne and Robert Frost. He feels poetry is a place ‘where imagination begins’ and calls his weekly newspaper page and community radio programme All Across the Arts. He has also appeared on BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC GMR and worked for BBC TV as a judge on the Off By Heart series.

Norman’s own work questions his settling for domesticity. Speaking for the disaffected and disenfranchised, his first non-poetry book was a biography of a sufferer from mental health and Parkinson’s Disease that brought about the subject’s re-union with his family. His work in progress, Virginia Moon, is peopled by characters from the Americana music he loves, whilst he continues to facilitate the Touchstones Creative Writing Group.