- Dean Parkin
Dean Parkin is a poet based in
Suffolk ,England who currently works as an administrator for both The Poetry Trust and The Rialto poetry magazine [ [http://www.stanzapoetry.org/stanza07_archive/biogs.htm#parkin Stanza Biography] ] .He has given many readings across the UK and in the US and has appeared at festivals such as the Cambridge
Wordfest and Scotland's poetry festival Stanza [ [http://www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/Orgs/poetrywivenhoe/2007/dean_parkin-july07.htm Wivenhoe website] ] and has a regular slot onBBC Radio Norfolk [ [http://westportbookfestival.org/programme/15-august/#dean-parkin West Port Book Festival Biography] ] .Jackie Wills, writing in
PN Review , has said of his poems that they “convey a natural empathy for people of all kinds and a curiosity about human behaviour... I like his humanity and his understatement. It’s refreshing.” [ [http://www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/Orgs/poetrywivenhoe/2007/dean_parkin-july07.htm Wivenhoe website quotation] ]Dean was chosen as one of a number of subjects by artist
Jenny Soep in her role as artist in residence at the 2007 Stanza poetry festival inSt Andrews . [ [http://www.jennysoep.com/events/StAnza/7.html Jenny Soep painting of Dean Parkin] ]In the 1990s he worked as an editor and publisher of local history books.
Local history
* "Wall of Water: Lowestoft and Oulton Broad During the 1953 Flood" with Royal Flaxman (1993)
*"Changing Lowestoft: The Story of the Town Since the War" with Jack Rose (1994)
* "I Remember Gorleston" with J.E. Holmes (1996)
* "The Grit: Story of Lowestoft's Beach Village" with Jack Rose (1997)Poetry
* "Irresistible to Women" (2003), edited by
Michael Laskey
* "Just Our Luck" (2008), edited byMichael Laskey External links
[http://www.deanparkin.co.uk DeanParkin.co.uk]
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