‘The Videomatic Tutor’ by Keith Jeffries is Write Out Loud’s Poem of the Week
Keith Jeffries lives in the Canary Islands – a reminder to us all of the international reach of Write Out Loud – and looks back to the years of National Service in his poem The Videomatic Tutor, observing men struggling to keep up in a woman’s world. Here are his answers to our Q&A.
What got you into writing poetry?
My father first introduced me to poetry with the poems of A E Housman and Rudyard Kipling.
How ...
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