Meet Eric

Having visited the Hungry Horse Folk Club in Whitby, near Ellesmere Port, a couple of times in the past, I was interested to see that the club was continuing its weekly get-togethers for musicians and poets on Zoom. In December 2020 I began to watch those evenings. I was a member of the audience to begin with. The poetry some members read aloud really stimulated me. I took the opportunity after a few months to read aloud a poem or two myself. I read aloud poems by Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, the three well-known Liverpool poets from the 1960s. I especially liked their whimsical poems. I also read aloud poems by Shel Silverstein who wrote the likes of a Boy Named Sue and Sylvia’s Mother – a very creative man indeed. On 22nd April 2021, I read aloud the first poem that I’d written a few days before. It was called Redundant in the Kitchen. It went down well, and it was like the firing of a starting pistol for my creativity to start flowing. I couldn’t stop writing poems and I have continued to this day.