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Biography as last given by Hylda: I won’t start at the beginning. These days I write songs and poetry and occasionally get stuck in and write a novel. I have written three of the latter and in 2000 managed to get one of them published by an imprint of LibEd who specialise in alternative education. Inspecting the Island is based on the school I had the great good fortune to be sent to – A S Neill’s free school, Summerhill . As far as I know it is the only work of fiction about the school, though A S Neill himself wrote many books describing it and wrote a kid’s story set there. You can buy my novel from Seven Ply Yarns, c/o 148 Crystal Palace Road, London SE22 9EP. It costs £9.00 incl p&p. If anyone has any practical ideas about how to get the other two, not about alternative education, published – let me know. In 1996 my narrative poetry sequence, Reaching Peckham , was set to music, performed at Dulwich Festival and on the London fringe and published in pamphlet & tape form – currently out of print. My first collection of poetry will appear from Hearing Eye this autumn [actually published in 2006. ed.], provisionally titled, Sayling the Babel. It may also include some recent songs. Until the spring of this year (2005) I co-ran (with Jo Roach) Poetry & Jazz every Saturday at the Poetry Café in London’s Covent Garden on behalf of the Poetry School. Before that I co-ran, with Wendy French and Peter Hore, the Dulwich International Poetry Competition. You will find poems of mine in various collections and magazines, including the Hearing Eye collection, In the Company of Poets. I’m unable to come up with a philosophy or point of view about poetry. Personally I seem to prefer writing about ‘out there’ rather than ‘in here’. Feely gets a lot of space these days, but poor old Thinky doesn’t do so well. I’d like to change that. Since the appalling consequences of the New York bombings in 2001 it seems even more important to write thoughtfully about ‘out there’, but it’s not at all easy to do so. I like it if I can make people laugh.
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