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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Montpellier, France |
| Introduction | If you use or quote anything from these poems, please reference me and this blog, and let me know by leaving a comment... Background photograph by Silje Lilly. I'm a 30 something graduate of London School of Theology. After my studies I worked with the homeless of Watford, England for four and a half years in various front line roles for a local charity. In May 2015 My wife and I moved to Montpellier in the south of France where I have been able to concentrate more on writing. I've been writing poetry for about twelve years, and have performed at a handful of open mic nights and poetry evenings. I also enjoy writing prose and playing music on the bass, guitar and harmonica. I studied theology because I love Jesus and I am always amazed at how much beauty and poetry there is the Bible, and in how God relates to us now. |
| Favorite Books | I read alot for my studies, and i like what I study...but instead of writing a big list of theology books I'm going write some of the biggest influences on my poetry... vocal and visual:, Peter Nevland, Benjamin Zephaniah, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bob Dylan, Tracy K. Smith, Alan Ginsburg, T.S. Elliot, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Jack Mpanje, James Berry, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ernest Hemmingway, Dan Smith (of 'Listener'), Yang Lian, W.B. Yeats, Robert Burns, Scott F. Fitzgerrald, Jim Carrol, Tom Waits, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thomson, William Blake, Langston Hughes, Ryan Adams, Sylvia Plath, James Byrne, Edwin Morgan, Arthur Rimbaud, Thomas Hardy, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sam Baker, George Herbert, The Tallest Man on Earth, Nick Flynn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Malcolm Guite, Leonard Cohen, The poetry of the Bible... And alot more, it's growing the more i read, listen and live. |