That’s a beautiful poem. I was thinking of Paul just the other day, remembering how he let me do a workshop in HMP Garth when I was starting out. I’d got to know him by publishing him in Scratch magazine. I think you and he came to a poetry night I organised back in the day in Middlesbrough? Lovely man. Last time I saw was a reading in Preston which was so badly organised he left after he’d been on rather than get into a fight!
That’s a beautiful poem. I was thinking of Paul just the other day, remembering how he let me do a workshop in HMP Garth when I was starting out. I’d got to know him by publishing him in Scratch magazine. I think you and he came to a poetry night I organised back in the day in Middlesbrough? Lovely man. Last time I saw was a reading in Preston which was so badly organised he left after he’d been on rather than get into a fight!
was then when we were The Contraries? your name rings a bell.
I think it was. I also did a three poets in one book collection through Scratch featuring Paul, with William Patk and John Duffy.
I've got a copy of that Paul gave me.