Geoff Hattersley

Geoff Hattersley lives in Yorkshire. His poetry collections include Don’t Worry (Bloodaxe, 1994) which was praised for its tragi-comic portrayals of lives in the post-industrial landscape of South Yorkshire. Between 1986 and 1998 he edited the Wide Skirt literary journal with his wife Jeanette, publishing more than 300 writers, many for the first time.