Stewart Henderson is a British poet and broadcaster. He writes for both adults and children. The ''Church Times'' has said of him: 'What
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (''né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytellin ...
has done for children's fiction, Henderson has done for poetry'.
Work
Henderson's poetry, which is often humorous, sometimes adopts the perspective of a child struggling to understand more about their place in the universe. His work has been anthologized and adopted as curriculum in primary schools in the UK and Scotland. He was
shortlisted
A short list or shortlist is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, etc., that has been reduced from a longer list of candidates (sometimes via intermediate lists known as "long lists"). The length of short lists varie ...
for the
Scottish Children's Book Awards for ''Who Left Grandad at the Chipshop?''
Since 2006, Henderson has been the host of
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
's ''
Questions, Questions''.
He was instrumental in the production of ''From Hairnets To Goalnets'', a documentary on Britain’s first women’s football team. Other programmes he has worked on include ''Poetry in Politics'', the educational series ''Wide Awake At Bedtime'', and ''The Holy Fire''
which was shot on location in Israel and won the
Jerusalem Radio Award for Best Feature in 2006.
Henderson is also a songwriter, working and occasionally performing with
Martyn Joseph
Martyn Joseph (born 15 July 1960) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose music exhibits primarily a brand of Celtic and folk, while his songwriting is often focused on social lament or protest. From independently releasing his first studio release, ...
.
Biography
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/saturdaylive/2006/12/stewart_henderson.html
* http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/contributors/stewart-henderson/
* http://lion.eden.co.uk/authordetail.php?author_id=22
References
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English male poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people