My name is Frank Burton, and I am an award-winning writer and performance poet. This site features samples from my work, including the full text of the novella, About Someone– a darkly comic experimental crime novella.
My short story collection, A History of Sarcasmis forthcoming through Dog Horn Publishing.Watch this space for news on the book.
The performance poetry album, Collected Words is available to download from iTunes and Payplay, or you can buy the CD from Lulu or CD Baby.Alternatively you can listen to the whole album online via the CD Baby website. The poetry section of this site contains the words to all the poems.
I was born in Lancashire in 1979, and started writing from an early age. My fiction and poetry have been published widely in the UK, Australia and USA.I am the winner of the 2003 Philip LeBrun Prize for Creative Writing. In 2008, I completed my MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, which I passed with Distinction.