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These are either people I like or people I’d feel guilty about if I didn’t include them. Most of them have their hearts in the right places, though. They’re all concerned with poetry or beat-music, although there’s one which is just photos of Essex churches.
Project
Adorno
Quite possibly the new Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Liz
Bentley
My poetry best friend
Openhaus
Arty organisation near where I live
Blyth
Power
Raucous, blaring pop group
Eastfield
Same as above, only with more foliate hair
Philip
Jeays
Histrionic singer who can make people weep
A
F Harrold
Hairy poet from Reading
Elvis
McGonagall
Stubbly poet from Scotland; possibly has a drink problem
Sundown
Proof that there is poetical life in Southend-on-Sea
Pure&Good&Right
And in Leamington Spa
Don’t
Feed the Poets
And – improbable as it may seem – Hastings
Steve
Lake
Nice singer with dark punk rock past
The
Poet Laura-eate
Breville-making poet who likes writing about buildings
Pog
Brighton’s favourite high-pitched beat-group
John
Hegley
Very much the omniscient greengrocer of the poetry world
Alan
Clayson
Apparently the leading authority on all music ever
Hammer
& Tongue
All-consuming poetry juggernaut, coming to a town near you
Farrago
Poetry
Ideal for the more competitive sort of poet
Shortfuse
Place where you can see poets and magicians
Express
Excess
Similar, but without the magicians
Aisle
16
Youthful poetry ensemble – said to be handsome
Wob
As is this wide-eyed young troubadour
Essex
Churches
If you like photographs of Essex churches, look no further
Apples
& Snakes
Doing things to poets since 1982