Felix Hodcroft – författare

Second EditionDeath for the bomber crew limping back over the estuary? Life after death for the young woman buried under the trees, beneath the city? A lunch break after death - as decades, centuries break their moorings and collide with each other?Felix Hodcroft is one of the most talented poets writing in Britain today, and Life After Life After Death, originally published in 2010, is his first full-length collection.

Driven by an impressive control of narrative and character, his poems shine a light into every corner of society - including yours - and consider familiar subjects as they've never been considered before. The poems are separated into two halves - fifteen under 'life', fifteen under 'death' - though the lines are never as clear as we might like, and of course the 'Life' section comes after 'Death'. "It is impossible to remain unmoved."Kate Evans"Full of wonder, beauty and humanity."James NashManchester-born, Oxford-bred, Felix Hodcroft gained degrees in English Literature and Applied Social Sciences. He has worked as a probation officer in Birmingham, Hull and East Yorkshire, but retired from full-time work in 2010 to pursue more poetry.

Lives of Lilo is the story of Lilo – a blue-and-red seaside accessory – blown from its beach-holidaying family towards the open sea, the wider world, on an adventure like no other. Lilo's voyage is at the heart of a narrative which extends across hundreds of years, past and future, in an epic modern fable for children. Lilo's direction (and survival) are decided purely by chance, along with the unprovoked kindness – or brutality – of humans and animals alike... yet Lilo cannot help but have an effect on the lives of all those it encounters.Felix Hodcroft's first children's novel (aimed at 11+ readers) is a work of extraordinary imagination, grounded in reality that will appeal to young readers and their parents alike.Felix Hodcroft has worked as a probation officer in Birmingham, Hull and East Yorkshire, and now lives in Scarborough. He is well-known in Yorkshire as one half of the spoken-word performance double-act 'The Hull to Scarborough Line', with fellow Valley Press author Sue Wilsea. His debut poetry collection, Life After Life After Death, was first published by Valley Press in 2010, since reprinted in a second edition.