Drawing the line: Ray Pool looks back at last days of steam
Write Out Loud regular Ray Pool has reached the age where he is a privileged possessor of what is fast becoming a prized secret. As a young man, keen photographer and railways enthusiast he witnessed and took pictures of the final days of steam locomotives in the late 1960s.
Now he has documented those days in a delightful document of line drawings from his own photos, and accompanying poems. T...
20th October 2021
Trains, trolleybuses, rag and bone men: Ray Pool publishes online book of archive photographs
Write Out Loud regular Ray Pool is known to many here as a professional musician. But what may be less well known is that before he turned to music, he was a photographer. Now he has published a splendid book of his photographs, titled Time Shift, garnered from his 35mm film archive of black and whi...
20th January 2021
Stockport Write Out Loud member David Keyworth publishes debut collection
A member of Stockport Write Out Loud Group, David Keyworth, has published his first pamphlet collection. The Twilight Shift is available from Wild Pressed Books.
David was born in West Bromwich b...
8th January 2021
