Andrea Neidle

Andrea has lived in Bushey for 47 years. She is a poet, blogger (My Life in Poems – www.andreaneidle.wordpress.com) and the author of “How to Get into Advertising” (Cengage Learning). Before retirement Andrea was the leader of the Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising course at West Herts College. She has an MA in Higher and Professional Education from the UCL Institute of Education.

Andrea’s poetry has been published both here and in the USA. She has read her poems on Radio London, BBC’s Poetry Now, The Arts Theatre, The Poetry Society and many poetry workshops. Some of her work recently appeared in “2020 Vision”, published by Watford Writers.

She was one of the winners in Watford’s 2020 Vision competition and has read her poetry at a number of Bushey venues including the Bushey Acoustic Festival.

She is a member of Watford Writers and is a Friend of the Bushey Museum.

She will be at the Arts and Crafts Fair on 13th and 14th November at the Museum, offering her first anthology 'Wonderland' for sale. Andrea will be reading some of her poems at 12 noon on Saturday and 12 noon on Sunday. One of her poems is below:

A MARTIAN’S VIEW OF EARTH
Far far away
In time and space
There was a land
For the human race.
They called it Earth
I don’t know why
All you could see
Was sea and sky.
There used to be flowers
And animals too
But the people there
Caught some kind of flu.
Some deadly virus
Went everywhere
It was on the ground
And in the air.
That virus killed
Billions of lives
And now Earth’s the planet
Where no one survives.
I visited once
But never again
I didn’t like
The cold and rain.