Author Description

<p>In this debut full collection, John Godfrey's poems range widely in their subject matter - including memories of the railways, postcards from Penzance, a glider over the Chilterns, a pink bicycle, old maps, the road to Santa Fe and also a man from the Twin Towers who survived 9/11. <p>"John Godfrey's poems don't let you down. Every word, every image has been picked with care... and the rhythms have been fine-tuned so that reading them is a pleasure, and feels effortless. And never dull - John Godfrey is as riveting when he is writing about his mother sewing his shirts, or considering American as a foreign language, as he is when writing about boys flattening coins on a railway-line. He is frequently funny and often touching. It is not surprising that so many of these poems have won prizes - they are prize-winning poems."<br>Frances Wilson <p><b>John Godfrey</b> lives in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, with his wife Suzanne, and is a former railway manager. <i>The Man on Crewe Station</i> is his first full collection, but his poems have been widely published in magazines such as <i>Acumen</i> and <i>The Frogmore Papers</i>, and have won numerous prizes - including first prize in Open Poetry Competitions organised by the Chiltern Writers Group, the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society, Kick Start Poets, Northampton Literature Group and Peterloo Poets.</p>