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The 5-part sequence of poems, “Roads to Glynmercher” was written in the early months of 2001 as a contribution to the celebration of Chris’s 60th birthday. My aim was to try and convey something about the person and the place – Torrance and his remote cottage – through the different approaches I had made, driving my car, over the previous 30 years. I was aware of a shortage, compared to Europe and the U.S., notably Dorn and Kerouac, of road poems in British alternative\u00a0poetry. The final poem of the five attempts to convey a sense of the invisible and spiritual pathways associated with Chris Torrance and Glynmercher.<\/p>\n
The “Elegy for Chris Torrance” was written about 2 months after his death.<\/p>\n
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Jeremy Hilton was born in 1945 in what is now Greater Manchester, and now lives in Bridport, Dorset, with his partner, the writer Kim Taplin. He is a retired social worker, writer, poet and composer of contemporary chamber music. His other enthusiasms are bird-watching, stamp-collecting, bridge-playing, and until recently hill-walking. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies worldwide since the 1960s, and he has published 14 books of poetry and one novel. A number of his musical compositions, including two string quartets, have been performed in concert. Between 1995 and 2012, he edited and published Fire<\/em>, an influential and international poetry magazine. His two recent publications have been Fulmar’s Wing<\/em> (Knives Forks & Spoons Press), a 78-poem sequence of “irregular sonnets” lamenting the crisis state of Planet Earth, and Far World From Silesia<\/em> (Brimstone Press), an exploration in prose and verse of the life and works of Emin Pasha.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Introductory notes to the poems – The 5-part sequence of poems, “Roads to Glynmercher” was written in the early months of 2001 as a contribution to the celebration of Chris’s 60th birthday. My aim was to try and convey something about the person and the place – Torrance and his remote cottage – through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[66,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-20G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Click here to go back to:\u00a0Contributors and Links to Pages 1 – 4<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"