Angela Locke
Angela Locke MA
Angela Locke's books have been translated across the world, seven fiction/non-fiction / five poetry collections and the film script 'In the Mind of Man' for String Theory Productions. Her novel 'Dreams of the Blue Poppy', which is set in Cumbria and the Himalayas was published by Robert Hale in 2007.
Angela has worked widely in radio and television. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Northumbria, was the Regional Editor for Cumbria magazine and columnist for Cumbria Life, and teaches Creative Writing to groups via Zoom Super Groups. She also leads International Creative Writing Retreats across the UK.
Angela was one of six finalists, including four Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph journalists, who were nominated for The Queen's for English Award for her article on Foot and Mouth in the national magazine Resurgence.
BOOKS PUBLISHED: PROSE
MR MULLET OWNS A CLOUD: Chatto & Windus 1982.
Then Cumbria Life Books Paperback 2006
A Cumbrian story (mainly for children, but allegorical and very popular with adults) of a fell farmer faced with modern changes to his traditional way of life. Nominated in Top Ten Best Christmas Books by The Sunday Times and widely reviewed as one of the first books of its kind to use dialect.
Serialised in Cumbria Life and reprinted as a paperback by Cumbria Life Boooks
SEARCH DOG: Souvenir Press 1987, Sphere 1989, Talking Books, Large Print, 11 Foreign Language editions, Readers Digest Condensed Book 1992, 12 overseas condensed book editions including Australia, Germany and France. (Photographs by author).
A true story of one of the Lake District top Search Dogs following training and stories of Cumbrian rescues. 4 years research involving “bodying†for 8 hours a day in winter on Cumbrian fells and working with teams on exercises.
SAM & CO: Souvenir Press 1989
Sequel to Search Dog showing through real-life accounts how all rescue services interlock during a rescue, and widening subject to include more Lake District and Northern dogs.
Worked from 1987-1989 with SARDA teams in Lakes and Yorkshire and flew with RAF Sea King from Boulmer. RAF gave me six flying hours in Lakes and we set up an exercise with Penrith team in Haweswater which included another flight for me and a winching up.
Many foreign translations, Readers Digest editions, Talking Books etc.
HEARING DOG: (commission with Jenny Harmer)
Souvenir Press October 1997. Paperback 1999
The true story of a profoundly deaf woman.
DREAMS OF THE BLUE POPPY
Novel partly set in Cumbria and partly in Nepal, about early plant hunters. Robert Hale 2007
POETRY
SACRED EARTH – POETRY COLLECTION : Pleiades Press – Published January 2001.
NORTH FACE – Poetry – PLEIADES PRESS 1989.
Poetry and photographs by author – Lake District and Borders.
INTO THE LOTUS: Poems of the Himalaya: joint publication Pleiades Press and Nepal. January 1997
WALLS AT THE WORLD'S END: Senhouse Roman Army Museum: based on commissioned work for the Writer’s Residency on Hadrian’s Wall. March 2005
WRITING ON THE WALL: Arts UK October 2006
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