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Welcome
To The Real World
about
introduction
Welcome To The Real World
Collected
Poems & Performance Pieces,
1980-2000.
A
collection of
re-published and new poems. The
previous book Breaking
the Chains
(1992) was out of print but still in demand, so
rather than
reprint it and produce a new book as well I combined it with poems
written since then
to create Welcome
to the Real World. Production
was
by Chris Gander and the cover by Julia Franchetti and me.
The
poems listed in the website contents are those which were written
between 1992 and 2000
and therefore did not appear in Breaking
the Chains.
A number were created for specific events at St
John's, West
Ealing.
The introduction to the print edition is reproduced here.
Read the Cross Rhythms review.
Below: Jo Whitfield, Godfrey Rust and Richard Lewis reading at the launch of Welcome To The Real World at St John's, West Ealing.
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