Andy Croft's books include Red Letter Days, Out of the Old Earth, A Weapon in the Struggle, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, After the Party, Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing, Bare Freedom and The Years of Anger. His plays include two Edinburgh Festival Fringe productions, Smoke! (2004) and Horty Porty (2005). Writing Residencies include the Great North Run, the Hartlepool Headland, Middlesbrough Town Hall, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, the Teesside Transporter Bridge, HMP Holme House and HMP Moorland.