I live and work in Kazakhstan. Most of my career has been in marine construction which is strange because I was raised on a remote farm in a wild part of Sussex(UK).
I started writing in the form of a journal, travelling slowly overland from UK to Australia in 1972. I did write some poems then but they were rubbish, allegorical, so I destroyed them all but one (It's Curtains for Pamela) that seems to work, by accident.
I started travelling when I was 4, crawling under the length of the garden privet hedge, my first experience of the self discovery of travel. Then came trespassing in private woods, then the bike, then my beloved 1958 2CV then, when I had graduated, Indian third class trains - something that grew out of watching a recital of Indian classical music on TV when I was 11 (India is the ultimate wood), then work in Russia, Libya, Oman, Turkmenistan, Daghistan, Kuwait, Algeria etc.
In 1999, with the oil price down below my knees, I was unemployed and joined a poet's group because I needed conversation. I felt I should come with a poem (to pretend I'm a poet), so I wrote one. Next week I wrote another...
Now, writing poetry is my form of bunjee jumping. I've received a lot of help from Wey Poets in Guildford UK, and from the famous "Val's Caravan" group. Now I rely on the internet for feedback. I've not had time to set about publishing. One day I'd like to.
Johndeprey's Genres: Poetry, travel blogs
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