Victor Tapner

Victor Tapner was born in Watford and grew up in Bedfordshire. He has won several major poetry awards, including first prize in the Academi Cardiff International Competition and Scotland’s Wigtown. A series of his dramatic monologues won The New Witer 2008 poetry collection prize, and he is included in the Bloodaxe anthology The Honey Gatherers. A former Financial Times journalist, he has also written a political thriller Cold Rain (Grafton Books, 1988). Now a freelance writer, he lives in Essex.