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Rik Roots. Courtesy Smashwords.

Rik Roots is an English poet and novelist.

Life[]

Youth and education[]

Roots was born in Dymchurch. Kent, England. He lived there for the first 24 years of his life, except for 6 terms at the North East Surrey College of Technology. He has a 2:1 Open Honours degree in computing and English from Open University.[1]

He began writing poetry when he was 14 or 15, though all of his work from that time was later destroyed in a kitchen fire.[1]

Career[]

For a time he worked as a civil servant.[1]

He was a part of the group that established Magma poetry magazine, and he edited issue 6. He left the magazine's management board a few weeks before Magma 7 was published. His main publishing credentials are, ironically, in Magma.[1]

Latterly he rarely submits poems to journals, but writes to his poetry website, the RikVerse.[1]

He has also completed and self-published a science fiction novel, and is working on another. He calls his civil service background "a perfect training ground for people wanting to write novels based on alternate realities and fantasy."[1]

He lives in London with his partner, Nigel, and their 2 cats.[2]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • The RikVerse. Lulu.com, 2005;[3] Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2010.
  • Play Time. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2010.
  • 22 Facets of My Father. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2010.
  • To Posterity: A sequence of poems. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2010.
  • Poems to Quote to Your Lover. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2010.
  • PaleoRik. Smashwords, 2017.[4]

Novels[]

  • The Gods in the Jungle. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2010.[5]
  • Snow Drop. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2012.
  • Spin Trap: The lonely city. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2013.
Priestess_-_a_poem_by_Rik

Priestess - a poem by Rik

Short fiction[]

  • The Story Portraits. Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, 2011.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press.[6]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 All About Rik..., The rikVerse, Rikweb.org, Web, Mar. 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Rik Roots biography, Smashwords. Web, Jan. 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ The RikVerse, Amazon.com. Web, Mar. 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ PaleoRik, Smashwords. Web, Dec. 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ The Gods in the Jungle, Amazon.com. Web, Mar. 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Rik's Sparky Little Printing Press, Lulu.com. Web, Dec. 23, 2018.

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