INFORMATION
Andrew Mayne lives in Stockport. He was born in Manchester in 1947. He read English at Leeds University and wrote a postgraduate dissertation on the novels of William Golding. He worked as a scoolteacher from 1970 to 2007 - when he retired from teaching at the Manchester Grammar School, where until 2002 he had been Head of English for seventeen years. He has written student editions of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy (Longman, 1983) and Joe Orton’s Loot (Methuen, 1985), and a critical introduction to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (Macmillan Master Guides, 1987). He is the co-author of Considering Prose (Hodder & Stoughton, 1984) and Considering Drama (Hodder & Stoughton, 1986). The Language Book (co-author, J. A. Shuttleworth) was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1996.
Since he started sending off poems to magazines at the end of 1998, his work has appeared in a wide variety of publications.
Andrew Mayne’s first volume of poetry, Always Our Likely Finale (97 pp.) was published at the end of 2006 by Poetry Monthly Press (poetrymonthly@binternet.com).
Copies of this volume may be obtained by writing to the poet and enclosing a cheque for £7.00. (£6.50 + 50p. postage and packing; for orders to non-UK destinations, please add the appropriate amount for postage.)
Orders should be addressed to:
Andrew Mayne,
1 Mauldeth Road,
Heaton Mersey,
STOCKPORT, SK4 3NW.
If you just want to get in touch, send me an email: mayneAA (at) aol.com
All of the six poems which appear on this website - they are taken from two separate articles - appear in Always Our Likely Finale.