NORMAL TOWN POET
This PHOTOBOOK WITH POEMS will be about my hometown of Didcot, Oxfordshire. I am a Working-Class boy from a council estate in Didcot, Oxfordshire which is the wrong side of the tracks from Oxford and all it stands for. This is a kind of auto-biography of myself and my hometown of Didcot where I lived…
This is an ongoing project I just started and will take time to complete. I began writing poetry in my hometown of Didcot in 1981-2 after a few perfunctory ‘poetry’ lectures at Hornsey College of Art introduced me to Larkin, Heaney and Hughes. Then a slightly tipsy Adrian Mitchell joined us under a tree in…