JHumble

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Introduction Jonathan Humble has worked as a painter in a corrugated card factory, lettuce picker for East Coast Salads, engineer in the power industry, deputy head teacher, poetry editor, poet in residence and library assistant. His poetry has appeared in The Big Issue In The North, Poems For Freedom, The Caterpillar Magazine, The Dragon Poet Quarterly, Lighten Up Online, Paragram, The Looking Glass Magazine, Stew Magazine, Amazing Magazine, WriteOutLoud, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Teacher, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, Obsessed With Pipework Magazine, Clear Poetry, Curlew Calling Anthology, Atrium Poetry, Zoomorphic, Riggwelter, Milestone Anthology, Three Drops Press, Poetry Roundabout, Amaryllis, Fairacre Press Diversifly Anthology, EyeFlash Poetry, Burning House Press, Bonnie's Crew, Picaroon Poetry, Blue Nib, Northern Life and The Tripe Marketing Board’s Diary. His short stories for children have been published in The Caterpillar and The Stew Magazine. He was shortlisted and highly commended for the Caterpillar and York Poetry Competitions. He edits the Dirigible Balloon which is an online poetry bank of poems for children and can be found at https://dirigibleballoon.org