Paul Hyland, Esq

Career: writer, broadcaster, teacher of creative writing, magician; memb: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Soc, Poetry Soc, Soc of Authors, PEN, Int Brotherhood of Magicians, Magic Circle; broadcast work incl: plays, drama-documentaries, features, poetry; Awards: Eric Gregory Award for Poetry, Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, Authors' Fndn Award

Books and Publications: Purbeck: The Ingrained Island (1978), Poems of Z (1982), Wight: Biography of an Island (1984), The Stubborn Forest (1984), The Black Heart: A Voyage into Central Africa (1988), Getting Into Poetry (1992), Indian Balm: Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994), Kicking Sawdust (1995), Backwards out of the Big World: a Voyage into Portugal (1996), Discover Dorset: Isle of Purbeck (1998), Ralegh's Last Journey (2003), Art of the Impossible (2004)