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Gareth Calway Poet

Hello. Sedgeford is quite hilly for Norfolk but not compared with my birthplace, Wales. I am not the first Celt to have lived in Norfolk. This is Boudicca country and she is a potent muse. The following is from No Roman Stones In 1997:

"Why am I talking to you, mother of Britain,
- in this time of the nerd and the trainspotter
- in this time of Little England without Britain
- in this time of training without education
- (in this time of the Essex man)
- Why am I talking to you, victory queen
- waling among flint-toothed fields
- at the roots of a tongue that gets lost in translation,
- drinking dandelion and rowan in a ditch of roman nettles
- from a freshly exhumed Celtic love cup....?"

You can find the rest of this in Britain's Dreaming (details below) which shows "a punk rock sensibility, a feel for history and a healthy appetite for Urdu love poetry..." (The New Times). My schooldays poetry show, Marked for Life, featured in The Teacher (March 2000), incorporates rock songs, flea-in-the-ear school documentary and a colourful gallery of school characters. "A riotously funny satire." (The New Times). Coming Home (1991) "gives us memorable individual poems within a marvellous framework..." (Eastern Daily Press).
Coming Home £6; Britain's Dreaming £7.50. Tapes of either £6, but half price if ordered with the book. Marked for Life CD is £12 and any other item ordered with it is half price. Boudicca: The Anarchy Tour (NEW) £12 and the forthcoming Bristol City Ruined My Life. All prices include p&p.
Cheques to Gareth Calway at Ancyrian, Cole Green, Sedgeford, Norfolk, PE36 5LS.

To find out more about Gareth's work, visit

Gareth's World-wide Scrapbook at www.garethcalway.co.uk