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Originally from Northern Ireland, Brendan Cleary is one of the UK's most distinctively gifted poets and a master in the art of teaching poetry. He is the editor of the punky DIY magazine The Echo Room and has been published extensively in journals, anthologies and in single-author collections such as Tears in the Burger Store (1985), White Bread and ITV (1990), The Irish Card (1993), Stranger in the House (2001), Jackson (Pighog, 2004) and Some Turbulent Weather (2008). Tall Lighthouse recently published Brendan's Goin' down slow: selected poems 1985-2010. Brendan's newest collection The Poet's Notebook, published by Pighog, is an essential poetry manual for aspiring poets.