John Stocks is a UK-based poet, novelist, historian and free-lance journalist who has had work published in magazines worldwide. He has been widely anthologised. John appeared in the UK Soul Feathers anthology, alongside Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Maya Angelou, Sharon Olds, and others. He also had the honour of sharing a page with Maya Angelou in the anthology Heart Shoots. Both anthologies were available in all major bookstores UK.
Other anthologies that John has featured in include: This Island City the first themed poetry anthology of poems about Portsmouth, the Cinnamon Press anthology Shape Shifting, the Northern Writer’s anthology Type 51, and the Toronto-based Red Claw press anthology Seek it. John also had a poem in the international anthology For Rhino in a Shrinking World.
Prior to a recent hiatus to focus on historical writing and research, John had poems published in an International Anthology for Seamus Heaney, the annual literary review of The Long Island Poetry Collective in New York, and Trainstorm, an anthology of Railway Poetry published in South Africa and London. Work also appeared in New Madrid, In Flight Literary Magazine, and others. He is the Poetry Editor of Bewildering Stories magazine.
Tempered Runes Press Contributions
“Owl” – Poem – Volume 1, Number 2 of Bluing the Blade