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Manchester
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Favorite Quote“Try again, fail again, fail better. ” |
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Sex | male | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Poets | Favourite poets include Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Baudelaire, Rilke, Lorca, Cummings, Dylan Thomas, T S Elliott, Christopher Logue, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Authors | I've always been a voracious and woefully indiscriminate reader. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greatest Influence | Life, loves and a little literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| About me | What we are is so often defined by the way we ‘earn a crust’. For forty years I was a teacher, the last twenty-seven of which I was Headmaster of a school for children with specific learning disabilities and social/emotional problems. All my energy and creativity was absorbed by my work, leaving little or no time for personal development. Now … well, I write a little, make a few pictures, potter in the garden – usually on a chair with a long cold vodkatini – watch the world go by [and consult my memories] a great deal. I am also frequently dragooned into serious ‘grampsing’. Before my first grandchild was born some years ago I did state categorically that “I don’t do babies!” The babies, however, didn’t agree. My early years were spent in the Valleys of South Wales Musicality, lyricism and a love of spoken language are all part of my Welsh heritage and I think they are all discernable in my written and graphic work. Wales was – and remains – the place I call home, though we only visited there each year until my mid-teens each summer holiday. Apart from those early years and visits, a further two years living semi-rough on the resort coast of North Wales, three years at College in Chester, and a single year working in the Fenlands of East Anglia, I have lived and worked in Manchester. The earthy and grounded tones in my work are directly attributable to my childhood and adolescence in the back streets of this soot-stained, grimy industrial city. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I’ve always been a voracious and woefully indiscriminate reade
Well said Could I use that as a quote?.
In ink,
David
oh my...
What a loverly lady you have perched on your knee monsieur! hehe
“For every shadow, no matter it’s depth, is threatened by the morning’s light…”
<3 Emarie
hi there
i like what u said to mark but plz can u show me how to take part in the poetry contest.plz dear i will love to win all so.the worlds greatest paul.see u soon dear bye and have a nice day