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| Fred Beake was born in Cheshire in 1948, but grew up in the rural West Riding. He was educated at Sussex and Bristol Universities (from which he holds a Classics degree). He has lived in Torquay since 2003. He edited The Poet's Voice and Mammon Press. He published a number of pamphlets in the 1970s and 1980s (notably The Fisher Queen, Northern House, 1988), which were collected in The Whiteness of Her Becoming (Salzburg UP, 1992). Since then he has published five books of poetry, among them The Cyclops (Menard Press, 2002), New and Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2006), and The Old Outlaw (Shoestring, 2011). Two of his translations are in the W. W. Norton anthology World Poetry. His modern French versions from Char, Desnos etc are collected in The Bees of the Horizon (Etruscan Books, 2005). | ||
Books available from Poetry Salzburg: Fred Beake. Out of Silence, 15 February 2020. 101 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-76-3 Fred Beake. The Whiteness of Her Becoming, 1992. 235 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-7052-0220-7 Fred Beake. Towards the West & Other Poems, 1995. 68 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-7052-0648-9 Fred Beake, ed. A Mingling of Streams: An Anthology of Poems Selected from The Poet's Voice Vols. 1-9, 1995. 243 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-7052-0912-1 Fred Beake. Places and Elegies, 1997. 136 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-7052-0118-2 Fred Beake. Imaginations of Mr. Shelley, 1993. 68 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-7052-0930-5 Send an e-mail to order this book |
