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"I was educated at Sir Roger Manwood's Grammar School, Sandwich and St. John's College , Cambridge . After teaching secondary school English in England and France , I gained a PhD at the University of Kent . Since getting my doctorate I have tutored at Bishop Grosseteste University College , Lincoln , delivering undergraduate courses on the History of the Novel, the Victorians, Modernism, and Creative Writing. I have given talks on Austen and Charlotte Bronte at the Lincoln Book Festival and presented papers at academic conferences. I have written poetry and short stories intermittently since the Sixth Form, co-edited my school magazine and thereafter supervised the production of many school magazines as well as producing and acting in various plays [including the 1981 Lincoln Mystery Plays]. Regular writing increased during my teaching career and I have been published in various outlets - Lincolnshire-Humberside Arts Magazine Proof , Poetry Now , Forward Press's regional anthologies and Life's Footsteps [2010]. Most recently I have appeared in United Press's Book of Dreams, 2010 National Anthology and Secrets of the Heart . The poems in this book map aspects of the variety of human experience, charting the tension between the seen landscape and the hidden heartscape."

Mapping can be purchased for £5 (Incl P&P) directly from the author, who can be contacted via email at klinley2003@hotmail.com, by phone on 01522 522785, or by post to 430 Newark Road, Lincoln, LN6 8RX.

Below are some extracts from Mapping: