Diane Cockburn
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Diane Cockburn's first collection Under Surveillance was published by Vane Women Press in 1999. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Northern Grit and Rewriting the Map. Her work also appears in Changing Voices, a performance piece commissioned by Cleveland Theatre Company for use in schools. She is an enthusiastic member of Vane Women, a writers' collective and small press based at Darlington Arts Centre in the North of England. Diane teaches creative writing at New College Durham and has just completed a Masters Degree in poetry at the University of Northumbria for which she was awarded a Commendation. Originally from the North of Ireland, she now lives and works in Durham city with her husband Gordon, daughter Verity and son Henry.
Winning Entry: On Pelion Beach
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2004, Finalist
