Author Archive: Kevan Pooler
What’s Sex got to do with it?
Now in Beta. First full draft, proofed and formatted. Will you be my Beta Reader please?
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
In the news again – but I have written up stories of several POWs who went through Lodge Moor. The lino cut on my cover was done by a Heinz Georg Lutz while there. (Double click the above image) The ‘latest’ news of work being done
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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