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Peter Farr
Poet
When I was 2 our family moved from a frozen Lowestoft, where I was born, and fled to a warm Uganda. I was educated chiefly at boarding schools in Kenya, crossing the border each way by slow steam train at the beginning and end of every term.
I started writing Poetry spontaneously at 15 and finished in the early days of 22, having produced 90 pages of A4 manuscript consisting of both long and short poems. Each poem has a pronounced rhyme and most tell a story, some well known such as the World War 2 battleships Bismarck and Hood and WW1 Air Aces Brown and Richtofen. Also the story of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu Wars, which won a prize in an E-Mag competition run by Birds On The Line.
I tried to convey the sounds and sense of smell (as it were of a film) to complement the imagery. I was always heavily influenced by modern film in depicting the pace and moment of the action.