It's a magical city, but back then it was a town in turmoil - Britain overwhelmed by economic and social change in which the north of England rotted away and the coal mines, the steel mills, the cotton industry fell apart. (SOUNDBITE OF GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS SONG, "FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY")īENNETT: I came of age in Liverpool, England, in the 1980s. And he'd shake his head and say, we should have lived there. And he'd read the inscription about, give me your tired, your poor. I now have it on my desk in New York City. And in dark times - and there were many - my grandfather Sam would take a cheap plastic tourist tchotchke of the Statue of Liberty off his fireplace. I play chess with him almost every afternoon.
And although Roger Bennett's great-grandfather never did make it to the U.S., the dream to get here never died.īENNETT: I was very close as a kid with my grandfather, who is obsessed with America. When his boat landed in Liverpool, he was sure he had made it to New York City and made his exit. The Bennett family myth - says Roger's great-grandfather, a kosher butcher - left Ukraine and headed to Chicago. Man City arrive in Porto after drowning Everton five-nil with.ĬHANG: The co-host of the "Men In Blazers" podcast and NBC show also really, really loves the United States. The reader is left with much to think about after the book has ben returned to the shelf.ROGER BENNETT: One last dance before we go, and it's the Champions League Final. Bloor uses precise, vivid language for all of his themes with subtle and powerful cadences.
This theme, with different subjects, is continued throughout the book. The poems start with ‘Solstice Song’ a poem of the very present caught in a yearning for the past. Roger Bloor’s poems are haunted by the realities of nature, historical stories and love. This stunning collection of poems honours his Staffordshire homeland, the forgotten and the marginalised juxtaposed with the poet’s gentle observations of intimacy, companionship and enduring love. Roger Bloor’s poetry is luminous and painterly. In his historical poems and in his scrutiny of the present, Roger Bloor is the most delicate of elegiac writers, in all things sensitive, attentive, and rich in understanding. His poems contemplate moments, testing their fragility, hearing their whispers, knowing they will modulate to loss. Few voices in contemporary poetry can match the instinctive reverence of Roger Bloor’s. I was Poet in Residence 2018/19 at the historic award winning Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire My poem 'shared memory overflow error' was Highly Commended in the AUB International Poetry Prize 2021
My Poem 'Do not turn the page' was published in Magma Poetry - climate change issue 72 Autumn 2018. My collection of Poems ' A Less Clear Dream ' was shortlisted for the Arnold Bennet Book Prize 2018, I have three poems in the Landscapes Anthology from Empress Press, and one of our cats has appeared in poetic form in the October 2018 issue of Now Then. I have poems published in The Hippocrates Prize Anthology 2017, Poetry Now Anthology " Growing Old', Allegro Poetry, Affect Publications ' StillBorn ' & Words for the Wild Anthology 2018. I have a longstanding interest in history, and research and write on significant folk from the past both in my poetry and my other writings. I have an MA in Poetry Writing from Newcastle University studying at the poetry School in London. Some of my writing is influenced by my experiences as a Royal Air Force Medical Branch psychiatrist and a specialist in Addiction Psychiatry the remainder owes a great deal to life in general. I was prior to my retirement the Lead for Medical Humanities at Keele and I have written poetry on and off for over 60 years. I am a retired consultant psychiatrist and former Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Keele University School of Medicine.
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