University of hard knocks: what poet Rowan McCabe learned on the doorsteps
“I knock on the door … I count to 45 in my head. I tell them I’m doing an art project, being a bit liberal with the truth. And then I do a poem to introduce myself.” Thus spoke Rowan McCabe, aka the Door to Door Poet, by way of introducing himself to a packed audience at Newcastle’s Lit & Phil on Tuesday evening. Described by his interlocutor, the north-east writer Harry Pearson, as “a cross between Lord Byron and the Avon Lad...
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