Paul Groves is a British poet and critic whose work has appeared in many literary periodicals and has won several prizes since he was first published in 1968.^{[citation needed]} He was for twenty years a schoolteacher, after which he spent two decades as a Creative Writing lecturer. He has given countless readings, both live and on television and radio.^[1] He was born in Gloucester in 1947, lived in the Forest of Dean, and currently resides in Somerset.^[2]