Leon Rooke Poetry 1956-57 at Dorking in Surrey

1956-57 at Dorking in Surrey

Her family lived in a rural town that shares many similarities with the fictional town of Concord—including the nearby lake where teenagers cruised on summer nights

She hoped her words would communicate to the reader/listener without being distorted by a personal response to her as writer/speaker

but this creative project – a four-part series of hundreds of surreal

Her work exhibits a keen intelligence as well as a tough-minded tenderness

Leon Rooke Poetry 1956-57 at Dorking in SurreyLeon Rooke, author Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices, Hot Poppies, The April Poems, The House on Major Street, Rank Songbirds, and The Happiness of Others. Rooke is an international reveller, skirt chaser and former wastrel whose celebrated oeuvre may have been ghosted by his wicked half sister, or maybe his mother, or an eighteenth century Keeper of the Lamps. But not this one. We may wonder why. Also, hes a raffish [ed. note: charming] bum.