Andy Blackford

GAP YEAR

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Middlesbrough, 1966: The young new English teacher, John Foggin, rolled into the Lower Sixth's Eng. Lit. lesson like a Dyson* into a world of broken Hoovers. Joyce and Shelley and Gerard Manley Hopkins danced in his wake, vividly alive and slightly intoxicated. That's how it seemed to 16 year-old Andy Blackford, anyway.Almost 50 years later, they were reunited here in Staithes. Foggin was already a much-lauded poet - Blackford's prime contribution to high culture, the TV jingle for Um Bongo.They resolved to write a poem each, every week for a year. The result is Gap Year, a collection that has won them the SPM Publications Poetry Book prize a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Foggin, John

ISBN: 978-0-9935035-4-2
EAN: 9780993503542
Produktnummer: 23223324
Verlag: SPM Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 86 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.5 cm 139 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 139

Über den Autor

Andy Blackford enjoyed careers as a rock guitarist and advertising creative director before applying himself seriously to writing. He is the author of two novels and many children's books and was a longtime columnist on Runner's World magazine for which he ran the world's toughest foot race, the Marathon des Sables. Nowadays he works as a prison chaplain and is training for Ordination in the Triratna Buddhist Community. He took up writing poetry when he re-connected with his A Level English teacher, John Foggin, after losing contact for more than 40 years. He is married and lives in Cambridge.