Chris WatersI Live and work in Totnes - as an adult education tutor in creative writing and literature/ storyteller (National Trust background)/ furniture maker - I like to work with head and hands! I've been writing poetry since editing Siren, the University of Sussex poetry magazine, in the late sixties I was at (but typically cant remember an awful lot about), the great Albert Hall International poetry happening in 1966 - but do vividly recall Adrian Mitchell electrifying the place with his anti Vietnam war poem... |
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I won the Bridport Prize twice - when living there in the 1970's, and have had work published in Outposts, and Sussex and Dorset anthologies Unforgettable influence: an Arvon course at Totleigh Barton with Seamus Heaney in the early 1980's Favourite poets: Hardy, Edward Thomas, Heaney, Hughes - but also ancient stuff in translation from Ireland, Anglo-Saxon, Chinese and Japanese The Mnemosyne poem inspired by the fact that there didn't seem to be any visual representations of this most essential of the Muses - she was named but invisible - seemed a shame! Have just finished making a book case for my nomadic poetry books....... |
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