POET’S CORNER

I ALWAYS read Towpath Talk in a Stroud cafe and walk the towpath every day. I have been meaning to send a poem for ages so here it is. I am a hack, one-time rock musician, songwriter and poet and live in Stroud.

I’ve swiped ideas and words from these poems/ novels/ films: Dover Beach, Sea Fever, Cargoes, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Treasure Island, Brighton Rock, Moby Dick, A Night to Remember, Mutiny on The Bounty, Robert Shaw spouting poems and songs in Jaws, Keira Knightly as Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Jeff Cloves Stroud, Gloucestershire