FAMILY POETRYHere are four members of my family who have written poetry at various times of their lives. I seemed to have escaped the gene but then surprised myself by writing three illistrated poems about our grandsons EDWIN MEADOWS DIXONMy grandfather wrote poetry in the 1920s and 30s in v the flowery prose of the time. He was also the band master of Smallthorne Brass Band in Staffordshire ROTHWELL BISHOPMy father in law, Rothwell Bishop's poetry was generally more humerous than Edwin's. ALEX DIXONMost of Alex's poems were written when he was at school or university in the 1980s and were perhaps a way of exploring new-found emotions and ideas. JAMES DIXONJames's poetry is more recent, emerging during an exhausting trip to South America in 2000. The poems here are light-hearted but some of his others are more deeply expressed. |