My name is Glen Wilson, I live in Portadown, Co Armagh. I work as a Civil Servant in Belfast in Statistics and Research. I am part of the Millenium Court Arts Centre Writing group in Portadown. I have had work published in Black Mountain review, Purple Patch, Iota, The Interpreters House and had poems in several anthologies. I was shortlisted for the Strokestown Poetry Festival's Satire Prize in 2007. My influences include Leonard Cohen, Seamus Heaney, George Szirtes, Pablo Neruda, Kurt Vonnegut and Jesus Christ. I have been writing for a few years and try to write poetry that loosely follows the premise that a good poem is one that can make you feel as well as making you think. I’m a Marketing Communications Manager for a tiny division of a gigantic company, and man, going into an office every day is excruciating. I’ve been writing poetry for so long that Methuselah should be taking notice, but in reality, time is simply doing its thing streaking ahead blithely pulling all of us along for the wild ride whether we like it or not; reminds me, I’ve published 15 poetry chapbooks over the years, the last one just came out about my Dad, “methinks I see my father,” done in cahoots with the talented Glenn Cooper from Australia, and before that was “when Patti would fall asleep,” about my wife. Guess you could say I’m a family man.