John Foggin
John Foggin has retired at least four times, but now thinks the condition will be permanent, having finally discovered that there aren’t enough hours in the day. He has been a teacher, lecturer, LEA advisor and author of books about teaching English. He gets excited about machine tools and dreams of living on the Isle of Skye once they get a Rugby League team. He lives in West Yorkshire and has a problem remembering his eight grandchildren’s birthdays.
Was published in -
Ukraine and Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: Demy
90 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599-38-7
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Ukraine and Other Poems -
there is an old soviet train
running through communities
of communist orchards
and the family planters
remain towns away
bussing each day
to plough and tow
the potato
the seed….
Extract from winning entry ‘Ukraine’ by Julie Bolitho-Lee
Ukraine and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Spring 2007 Poetry Competition. No fewer that twenty-nine triumphant verses about elderly fruit pickers and disappointing aunts, stolen daffodils and red dresses and every other topic in between nestle within these covers.
