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Bradwan, my alarm bells usually ring loud when someone says that they write poetry, so I'll be honest, I only looked for a laugh.
However, that is really very good. My hat is off, and if legend is to be believed, you will have written it against a background noise of the scraping of club feet.
Are you part of the Arts Council bandwaggon? posted by Artsquirrel on the Hayseed Dixie Outhouse Forum
- I'd say the book is a rare and original expression. The openness of the
poetry, complemented with some emotive artwork, evokes the cherished
memories of a man who has lived and loved. In a time where art and
poetry is packaged and presented to suit market demands it is really
refreshing to find an uncompromisng creator who will neither shy away
from the personal with its pain and hope, nor seek to distill this into
an artistic ready-meal, but rather self-publish and promote the work on
exactly his own terms.
Nic Wistreich, Editor ' Get Your Film Funded book
- “It's wonderful quality. I can't believe you could find anything as good a quality as this for the price.” - Kim, manageress of Hampsons bakery, Ivegate, Bradford.
- “...it was a nightmare” - Glyn
- "He'd make a good plumber. He's the right size." Linda of Todmorden.
- “Although I will be unable to attend your event on 27 June, I do wish you well for a successful day. I am delighted though that J. L. Carr's work is being celebrated in this way.” - David Bell, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools.
A few years ago David Bell's picked J.L.Carr's The Harpole Report as his favourite book for the Big Read programme.
- “He's as mad as a badger!” - Koot - Britain's best heavy metal airbrush artist, and self proclaimed Mayor of Saltaire
- “So why 'Bradwan'?” - nearly everyone who's talked to Glyn in the last year...
- “And what's a 'Walburga'?” - absolutely everyone who's talked to Glyn in the last year!
- “We know of no poet working in England who weds poems and drawings together in the way that Watkins does in this book. His drawings are deceptively simple, his poems brief, but they conceal a complexity that can evoke sadness and anger with an imperfect world, but also that joy and hope should ultimately be what drives existence.” - CITY GENT magazine
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- “...conspicuous gallantry in approaching a snooty bookseller!”
- J. L. Carr
- “It reminds us of the work of William Blake.” - Mark Russell, BBC Radio 3
- “It's very good.” - Robert Carr
- “You're not to spoil him. He's to pay full price!” - Kenneth Branagh's secretary
- “Well, he's not thrown it away yet!” - Kenneth Branagh's secretary
- "I drift away when I'm reading it. You're taken away. You're in another planet. Then you have to come back to Earth because Glyn is sat there, on the other side of the desk." Shamina Khan, New Deal advisor. She is charming and good at her job.
- 11th August 2004. I was at the first Shooting People - Shoot Out Short Film Festival in London on Sunday. I sold a few Walburgas. forgetting - forgiving. Including one to festival supremo Ben Blaine: who wrote
And the WINNER of SHOOT OUT is...
Everyone. Obviously. That includes everyone who sent me a film for selection, everyone who turned up on Sunday, everyone who is going to turn up to the other screenings up and
down this great land of ours, everyone who ate free melon, everyone who buys
Glyn Watkins book of poems, me and Uri the dog.
- 'I found it very thought provoking and masterly and I
loved the illustrations.Chris
- 'Just wanted to let you know that the wonderful WALBURGAS arrived safe and sound
here today. I've already read some of the poems and enjoyed them very much
(including the one at the bottom of page one, thanks for signing the book!!)
Walburgas will certainly have a special place in my bookshelf!!:-)
Greetings from Germany,
Nadine
- 'That's really beautiful brother!'.' - Brother Eamon, landlord of the Melbourne, White Abby Road, Bradford.
- 'You live in a parallel universe that occasionally touches the one the rest of us live in!.' - Gaye Bosley: Havelock T.E ltd.
- '...particularly entertaining.' - Simon Ashberry, author: Come sit with us!
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