Mark Floyer is an English Literature graduate from Wadham College, Oxford and holds a PhD in Creative Writing. A retired schoolmaster, he now lives in Devon and teaches for the WEA in Exeter. He has published extensively over the years, most recently in Westerley (Aus) and Poetry Salzburg Review. A collection of poems about his childhood spent in Calcutta entitled "Crow Dusk" was published by Paekakariki Press in 2018 and a cricket/ teaching memoir Chasing Balloons is due out from Charlcombe Books in April 2019.