About Me

A poet from Yorkshire, I have been writing for most of my life and have been widely published in magazines and small presses, winning a Commendation from the Tonbridge Poetry Prize in 2006. My poetry collections include Little Creatures (Poems of Insects, Small Mammals and Micro-organisms), Dream Sequence, and Random Journeys, and I also write fiction, drama, and nature pieces for local newspapers and others.

My interest in the Brontës is long standing, and I can vividly remember the first time I heard of them, while at Middle School in Leeds in the early 1990's, and learning they were a famous trio of literary sisters from nearby Haworth.  I began reading the Brontë novel sin my late teens, and on moving to the Calder Valley in 2012 began to look further into the history of the family after finding that the first ever Brontë publication - Patrick Brontë's Cottage Poems - was printed in Halifax, that Emily Brontë had lived and worked in Southorwam, and that Branwell had been based in Sowerby Bridge while working on the railways.  In 2017, my film Branwell Brontë's Calder Valley Years, which includes footage and interviews from Haworth Brontë Parsonage, biographer Dr Juliet Barker, and many local artists, writers and residents, was premiered at Halifax Central Library. The film was screened at Branwell's birth town of Thornton, in the church where his father preached between 1815 and 1820, and on Branwell's bicentenary at the Parsonage, as well as at the Halifax Playhouse and elsewhere.
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Other projects of mine include continued poetry publishing, writing on natural history, and occasional broadcasting work for Phoenix FM, Halifax.  More information on my work can be seen at http://simonzonenblickcaterpillarpoet.blogspot.com/