Andy Croft - Independent Northern Publishers

Andy Croft's books include Red Letter Days, Out of the Old Earth, A Weapon in the Struggle, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, Comrade Heart and thirty-two books for teenagers, mostly about football. he has edited, with Adrian Mitchell, an anthology of British socialist poetry, Red Sky at Night. His previous books of poetry include Nowhere Special, Gap Between Hills (with Mark Robinson), Headland, Just as Blue and Great North. He is currently Writer-in-Residence at HMP Holme House, Stockton.

'His Englishness resides in working-class and local concerns, unselfconscious while being consciously part of a Shelleyan political tradition' - The North

Andy Croft at Literature North East

	Just As Blue By (author) Andy Croft Following the Fall of whatever-it-was-that-fell in 1990, Just as Blue offers a view of contemporary history as seen from somewhere between Moscow and Middlesbrough.

	Great North: A poem of the Great North Run By (author) Andy Croft Teesside writer Andy Croft was poet-in-residence on the Great North Run in 2000.

	Comrade Laughter By (author) Andy Croft Comrade Laughter sets out to discover who put the laughter in slaughter. A book for humourless old lefties everywhere. It only hurts when you laugh.

	North by North-East Edited by Andy Croft, Edited by Cynthia Fuller North by North East brings together a representative selection of the region's contemporary poetry.