Contributor
Contributor: Murray Shelmerdine
Murray Shelmerdine was born in Newport-upon-Tay in the Kingdom of Fife. He has worked as a ferryman, labourer, driver, teacher, computer programmer, actor, theatre director, journalist and drama critic. He has been the prime mover in an environmental project in a small remnant of ancient woodland in North London since 1998. He can be seen there at weekends leading groups of small children through the trees in search of treasure or battling to save the planet. He has written and adapted a number of plays, which have been produced in London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Nairobi, New Orleans and on BBC Radio. He taught acting at the City Lit in London for many years. His first collection of poems, Sermons of Sedition, was published by Nettle Press. He presents Poetry Now and Then on Resonance FM.
