Gill NicholsonGill Nicholson was born in Slough, Bucks, in 1936. She was educated at a co-ed independent boarding school where she was taught English by poet Brian Merrikin Hill. She then went to Bretton Hall to train as a junior school teacher specialising in musc. Living alone in Clitheroe in 1956, she started writing poems about isolation, dwindling religious conviction and the Cold War. She married Arthur James in 1959 and lived in Harlow New Town where her first son was born. They moved to Torver, Cumbria, in 1964 and in 1965 her second son was born. Gill had her own pottery studio in the 1970's and became a member of The Guild of Lakeland Craftsmen. She returned to teaching, with responsibility for children with special needs, in 1981. Read More Read Less