– How poetry made a human –

a poetical life

poems circa 1968 to the present day.

My early specialities seemed to be hyperbole, extended metaphors and a heavy dose of Victorian Romanticism and gloom. It seems to have come together alright in the end though, with the help of rock music, glam rock, Dada, Puffin books and iconoclastic influences at a formative age.

Details from ’Bedroom shrine to madonna of the rocks” Becky Nuttall 2017