Author Archive: Kevan Pooler
What’s Sex got to do with it?
This is the work towards my ‘magnum opus’ in planning for over 40 years. It is key to the website title – the Meaning of Life and the Sex that started it. How can I reflect, in a novel, on the hidden codes in the language of love, but still not taught? They felt hard …
Peter Green’s End of the Game
Peter Green and the End of the Game Material referenced in my Work in Progress ‘What’s Sex got to do with it?’ Ex Friar looking for love, discovers this icon. I had missed the early years of the British Blues Boom as I was a young Friar in a monastery. A few months after I …
Prisoner of War Camps in Britain
Most of you visit me for this book Convicted for Courage. It pulls together stories told to me, Kevin Murphy, by over 50 people, backed up with almost 5,000 files of research. These are still being gathered since first interviewing Italian, German, and Ukrainian ex POWs on video, in 1989. The fifth edition of 2023 …
Convicted for Courage
2022 5th edition with over 100 images available from Amazon worldwide in Print and for Kindle, and Waterstones in UK.
Sheffield Pals
A first extract from ‘Courage and Conviction?’ My own Grandfather, Jim Pooler a 4’10” Lancashire Fusilier Bantam, was gassed probably at Arras on the Somme. I publish this on the eve of 100th anniversary of the Somme, in memory of all the poor lads left behind, and the poor lasses left at home. Eric re …
I don’t care what you call me
Greeny’s Track of the Month David Ford’s “I don’t care what you call me” David Ford Master of the bitter love song with lines like “I’ll put up with your shit ’til the day that I die”, “Go To Hell”, “You’re less fucked up than the average girl”.
Greeny’s track of the Month – Man of the World
Of course he is a fan of his namesake. Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac sings “They say I’m a Man of the World… but I wish I was in love.” It always makes Greeny feel better. Is it like some people enjoy a really good cry? And if my words could say as much as …
Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child
For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he’s become an international hip-hop star and an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells the story of his amazing life. Hear War Child Emmanuel giving his story in Oxford. His …
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