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James Crowden was born in Plymouth in 1954 and grew up on the western edge of Dartmoor. He studied civil engineering at Bristol University and anthropology at Oxford.
For twenty years he worked in Dorset and Somerset as a casual farm worker as a shepherd, sheep shearer, woodman and cider maker.
His first book of poetry, Blood Earth & Medicine, was published in 1991.
He has since written ten other books including In Time of Flood, Cider - the Forgotten Miracle, Dorset Man, Dorset Women and Dorset Coast.
He is now a full-time writer and poet with occasional programmes on BBC Radio 4.
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