JOHN F B TUCKER

Biography

I live in Cumbria but am born in London. Creative Writing was the subject of my degree (and English too). At present I have about 13 self-published or vanity-press-published books out there - also about 13 albums or long E. P's. I wasn't getting them right though. Now I hear peak-time's over. Now I am 43, an age at which they say the best would be done. I look back at the last 4 books I brought out... if it is the new Blake you seek try my book Soundcloud Rain (which is a book of songs). Alternatively there's The Sunset Child which is boyhood science dating back to when I was 7. There's also a love poem book called Breath Trapped In Heaven out there; and a book about life at the foot of Black Combe called Brave New Tense. These 4 are out with Chipmunka (the mental health publishers). Still not feeling I've done enough, what I am thinking of using this excellent online forum for now is building a fifth collection for the publisher Chipmunka. That would surely mean being ultra-vigilant when it comes to not re-hashing and re-configuring the same old stuff. So far, the new poems seem to be terse and meaningful, to each have a reason for their existence, to have something specific intended behind the words. Thus you could say I like to delight in a wilful opacity, bats, black magnets, encryption, firking, code, symbolism and even mysticism.

Samples

THE FEMALE PAINTER She is a great exhibitionist, setting up her easel anywhere, like in the garden out here, or down on Gutterby Beach where waves still make gentle love to the shore.

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