Geraldine Monk is a British poet born in 1952 in Blackburn, Lancashire (known to Beatles fans for its "4,000 holes"). Since the late 1970s, Monk's poetry has appeared in many anthologies, most recently the Anthology of 20th Century British and Irish Poetry. She is currently the co-publisher of West House Books with her husband, Alan Halsey. Her books include Interregnum (1994), Dream Drover (1999), Noctivagations (2001), Insubstantial Thoughts on the Transubstantiation of the Text (2002), and, with Martin Archer, Angel High Wires (2001).