Christopher North’s first collection ‘A Mesh of Wires’ published by Smith|Doorstop was short-listed for the Forward Prize in 1999. He has published two full collections since: ‘Explaining the Circumstances’ (2010), ‘The Night Surveyor’ (2014) and a joint , bilingual collection ‘Al Otro Lado del Aguilar’ (2011) with Terry Gifford – all with Oversteps Books. His most recent pamphlet collection is ‘Wolves Recently Sighted’ Templar Poetry 2014. Since 2002, with his wife Marisa, he has facilitated poetry writing retreats and courses at, Almassera Vella in Relleu, Alicante Spain. (www.oldolivepress.com) He chairs ‘Stanza Alacant’ now in its eleventh year.

He is a strong advocate of Peter Redgrove’s incubation process.