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Hello my name is John and I am a poet and songwriter. I have 5 collections out with Chipmunka (the mental health publisher); and there was a chain of self publications from before but I am disinclined to count them. On top of the 5 Chipmunka collections I have a digital collection called Owls which I made on canva.com by superimposing words on photographs.

Back in the Rimbaudian years of my youth, I was the guy to prove the face of stars with my very first verse at my very first gig, but I won’t repeat the words herein. They’re in the recent collection Yes You May. All 5 of my Chipmunka collections, plus my digital collection Owls are available to read for free on my blog.

The most recent thing I did was to organise my friend Grant Aspinall’s first book for him, formatting it and writing an Introduction, and I can report that giving is happiness just as my mum said. My friend’s book is called Songs And Poems by G L Aspinall.

Looking back at my own work, things went wrong when it was left unsaid that I had proven the face of stars with my first verse at my first gig and knowing now what people made of it, I consider how I might’ve done everything differently when it later came to making books if I had my time again. Still, life is too short for harbouring regret, and it’s a sunny day, and my friend is coming round to see me soon.