Trevor Maynard Biography

Currently calling for submissions for his latest curating project LOOKING IN LOOKING OUT - poems of up to sixty lines by 12 April 2023 to www.willowdownbooks.com. His most recent publication is PARADOX - his fourth collection of poetry, He recently edited Human to Human, featuring 28 poets, The Poetic Bond X, featuring 43 poets from around the world, and Poems from the Lockdown, featuring 146 poems by 115 poets from 11 countries. Before that he edited Who Are We? then short stories on theme of identity and race. HIs latest project is a call for poetry for POEMS FROM THE LOCKDOWN 2.022 - details at willowdownbooks.com. His next publication will be CONCATAVERSE, due for publication in March 2022.

He has several published collections including The Path Now Known, Grey Sun Dark Moon, and Keep on Keepin' On, as well as his one-act play anthology Four Truths.

He has been the editor of the international poetry anthology series The Poetic Bond since 2011 and published the tenth and final volume in November 2020. The Poetic Bond has showcased the work of 236 poets from 37 countries. In 2020 he also edited Nature 20/20, an anthology of 21 poets on the theme of the environment.

Trevor is also the editor of the Cunningham Short Story Anthologies Life Dances (2017) and Our World, Your Place (2018) , Nine Frames (2019) . Who Are We? (2020) .

Other publications featuring his work include Aesthetica, Tuck, October Hill, Deep Underground, Poetry, Life and Times, Miracle, and the anthology Men in the Company of Women (EAP) .

Trevor is a member of The Poetry Society (UK) and formerly an executive member of The Writer's Guild of Great Britain, and treasurer of The Theatre Writers' Union. He is the manager of the LinkedIn poetry forum Poetry, Review, and Discuss, which has 21,700 members.