Books By Cliff Yates - Author

Cliff Yates was born in Birmingham and grew up in Birmingham and Kidderminster. He left school at 16 for the printing factory and did various jobs before returning to full time education. In the 1970s he learnt Transcendental Meditation, and for many years he taught English in the Maharishi School. His books have won the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet competition and received the Fenton-Aldeburgh Prize as well as an Arts Council England Writers Award. A former RLF Fellow at Aston University and a hugely experienced teacher and writing tutor, he wrote Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School during his time as Poetry Society poet-in-residence following the success of his students in poetry competitions.