Chairman of Fire River Poets (www.fireriverpoets.org.uk)
John is retired after 30 years with City and Guilds, the vocational awarding body, and prior to that the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Commercial Education Scheme, as it then was.
As well as chairing Fire River Poets, John organises the poetry events now running at the Creative Innovation Centre and formerly at The Brewhouse in Taunton. John is himself a published poet (Word of Mouth, Oversteps 2009) and a keen student of philosophy though he read Russian at Birmingham University.
wjstuart@sky.com