My name is James and this personal website is an attempt to archive my writing which predominately is (under a loose banner) poetry
I started writing things down at the age of 17 in 1992, initially with no other idea of plan then to keep a record of my thoughts and feelings. Given my growing up experiences it felt like the perfect way to apply some self help therapy
I have written before about why I started write but I have never really thought about my big bang moment. At the age of 16 I heavily got into Marc Bolan and I loved the lyrics and the way he used words, subsequently I got into a whole range of artists, Kinks, Beatles then John Lennon and so on, all strong lyricists.
read more January 2020 TBBTG Update: Happy New Year and My Poetry Big Bang Moment
I haven’t completed an update for a while and to be honest, I was thinking of abandoning them altogether. Only because my remit for this blog and this site is quite straightforward, that is, it’s an archiving project and the aim is just that, archive my writing so I have something available for people to look at now or in the future
read more TBBTG December 2019 Update – Is It Poetry and Other Thoughts
TBBTG Update I haven’t updated for a couple of weeks so i thought i would give a little run down
read more THe Boy Behind the Glasses (TBBTG) Update – Friday 30th August 2019
Reflections and all that… I was notified that i had reached my 1000th post yesterday, i rather glumly thought, i
THEMES AND STATIONERY I had planned to undertake monthly updates but over the weekend, a flurry of likes and people
