Bob Beagrie is a poet, playwright and senior lecturer in creative writing at Teesside University. He has performed at numerous festivals and venues nationally and internationally. As well as collaborating with musicians he has also worked closely with visual artists on public artworks and with theatre company Three Over Eden.   His poetry has been translated into Urdu, Dutch, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Photograph by Kevin Howard

Bob's poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Forward Book of Poetry 2009.

Publications include:

Gothic Horror (Mudfog Press 1997)
Masque: The Art of The Vampyre (Mudfog Press 2000), Huggin & Muninn (Biscuit 2003)
Endeavour: Newfound Notes (Biscuit 2004)
Perkele – a bi-lingual pamphlet with KalleNiinikangas (Ek Zuban 2006)
Yoik (Cinnamon Press 2008)
The Seer Sung Husband (Smokestack Books 2010)

A forthcoming collection entitled Glass Characters (Red Squirrel Press) is due out in November 2011)