My name is Philip Dodd. I was born in 1952, live in Liverpool, England, have a degree in English literature from Newcastle University, and I have been writing songs, stories and poems since I was twelve. My first book, Angel War, was published by Fast Print Publishing in April, 2013. My second book, Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle, was published in March, 2015, and my third book, Still the Dawn: Poems and Ballads, was published in October, 2015. I have had poems published in my local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo, The Dawntreader, a quarterly poetry magagazine, Mallorn, the Journal of the Tolkien Society, Greek Fire, an anthology of poems inspired by Greek mythology, published by Lost Tower Publications, and The Poetry of Flowers, also published by Lost Tower Publications, and Not Enough To Quit, published by Atla Publishing. More about my books can be found on my website: http://philipdodd.yolasite.com My favourite writers are William Shakespeare, John Milton, Homer, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Fowles and Mervyn Peake.    

Degree in English literature from Newcastle University.