ANDREW BLAKEMORE (01/01/1966 / ALDRIDGE)

Andrew Blakemore BA (Hons) was born in Aldridge, Walsall in the West Midlands in 1966.The youngest of three sons, Andrew was educated at Aldridge School 1977-84. He always had a passion for art and music and at the age of 16 he taught himself to play the guitar. Soon afterwards, he began to write songs and verse. He later went on to achieve grade 8 on the classical guitar. Andrew graduated in Music in the year 1999, having studied with the Open University. In the year 2001 he turned his hand to writing poetry. Some of which were published in his local church newsletter and were well received. This encouraged Andrew to keep writing. Andrew has now written well over 1000 poems. In 2007, he published 'The Wonder is You' a complete anthology of his poems. This book features all of his completed works up until the end of the year 2006. It contains 440 poems in total. In the year 2007 Andrew was made a featured poet with forwardpress with his poem 'I wrote her name upon the sand' chosen as their poem of the month for July. In 2009 Andrew published a new collection of poems called 'Aurora' and it contains 423 new works. In 2012 he published a new collection of his poems called 'Reflections' which is currently only available in Kindle format from Amazon. If you wish you may follow Andrew on twitter ablakemorepoet

ANDREW BLAKEMORE's Published Books:

'THE WONDER IS YOU' ISBN 978-1-4259-9304-7
'AURORA' ISBN 978-1-4389-2500-4
'REFLECTIONS' KINDLE