Welcome to my website! I have been writing poetry since 2007. I am delighted to have been chosen as overall winner of the 2009 Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition. My first collection, Dear Mr Asquith, will be published by Smith/Doorstop Books in September 2010. http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/index.php/nina-boyd
Born in Hertfordshire, I moved to West Yorkshire in the sixties, where I had three children and graduated from Leeds University. I went on to be a nurse, and later a medical book indexer. I am a student on the MA Creative Writing course at Manchester Metropolitan University. I now live in Huddersfield with my poet husband, John Bosley, and a cat called Dora.
I am currently working on a collection of poems about the Suffragettes; and a biography of Mary Sophia Allen, one of the first British policewomen.
Please explore this site! I am happy to give readings of my poetry, some of which you can read on the poems page.
NEWS! The annual readaround of the Albert Poets will be on Thursday 12th August 2010 at 8:00. Bring one or two poems - your own, or poems you love - to read. (Please, nothing too long!)
Admission free as always.
For more information, send an email to albertpoets@live.co.uk
last updated 29th July 2010