The seventeenth story in my collection of thirty, When I Am Not Writing Poetry, ‘The Poet’ – almost an autobiography, almost a teaser for The Dark Trilogy: a parallel story of the Svengali-like friend who – it is suggested – was responsible for a literary career. The scholar, the academic, the writer who explained a poem!
Twenty years ago my friend asked me to write a book…
To be more precise, he asked me to write a commentary on one of his poems and, in that small commission, what has perhaps become my most famous work was born. And he died. But I am proud to say that through my work, he lives on. You can learn much of the man and his works in my lengthy treatise—you will learn of his public life and of the story of his lives that was hidden in the poem
‘The Poet’ can be found in When I Am Not Writing Poetry – available here or on Amazon.
