Our poem of the month is Dear Humankind by Graham Bruce Fletcher, whose early life was influenced by his uncle, T.S. Eliot, who encouraged him to examine life critically and write about it.
In his teens, he contributed to Rave magazine and International Times, and began his – still unfinished – first novel. Studying English and Drama at Durham University, he wrote for Palatinate – the student newspaper – and Muther Grumble – a local ‘underground’ magazine. He was Associate Editor of Face North – a regional arts magazine for the Northeast.
He began submitting stories and poetry to literary competitions in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Bridport Short Fiction Prize in 2011. He has read his work at Stroud Short Stories, the Edinburgh Festival of the Erotic Arts, the Cheltenham Literary Festival, the Durham Poetry Jam, and on Corinium Radio. He is probably the world’s laziest blogger. You can read Dear Humankind here.
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