Ronnie James
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | State Sponsored poet |
| Location | Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Ronnie James is a miserable welsh poet. Dissenfranchised by domestic life post discharge from the armed forces ( RN ) shortly after the end of the Iraq "war", He dispatched hisself around europe, and thankfully, a lot of thats shite, too. He now resides in North Wales suffering in despair as party politics destroys democracy, prohibition destroys lives and wars make the rich richer. A fervent supporter of democratic socialism, he sits, waiting for the revolution that will never come. |
| Interests | Poetry, reading, politics, current affairs, cannabis and ending profit driven prohibition, writing to Peter Hitchens to tell him why he's wrong & Golf. |
| Favorite movies | One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Leon, In the Loop, Millers Crossing, Eastern Promises/History of Violence, V for Vendetta, Easy Rider ,Dead Mans Shoes |
| Favorite music | Arcade fire, Editors, MGMT , Genesis, Loads of other stuff.. |
| Favorite books | The Odyssey,Aeneid, Yr Mabinogion, On Liberty - J.S Mill, The God Delusion, H.L.Mencken on religion, Hitch 22, Trial of Henry Kissinger, God is not great how religion poisons everything, Love Poverty & War & anything else by Christopher Hitchens, E.Rogan's History of the Arabs, Scott Atran's talking to the enemy, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Gullivers Travels, Filth & lots of Irvine Welsh stuff, Len Deighton, Tom Sharpe, Gerald Seymour, Martin Amis, The Bard, Shelley, Kipling, Larkin, Auden, Betjeman, & the late great Sir Hovis Presley |