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    Too Young to Forget
    Too Young to Forget
    Too Young to Forget
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    Too Young to Forget

    By Philip Burton

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    "...interested in words ... a sure sense of rhythm ... striking images" - Copland Smith

    "...he's got serious things to say" - Derrick Buttress

    "... a deft observer ... conveys felt emotion with no little skill" - Michael W. Thomas

    " ... poems sizzle and rasp ... not derivative but immediate and deeply felt ... deserves a wider audience!" - Barry Tebb

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Burton
    Release dateApr 28, 2012
    ISBN9781310176753
    Too Young to Forget
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    Philip Burton

    Philip Burton was born in Dunfermline and raised in Ramsgate, Kent. He has been a Primary school head teacher in Lancashire and is married with five children. Philip won the August 2014 Sentinel poetry competition and the Teignmouth poetry festival poetry competition, 2014. In 2013 he won second prize in the Ilkley Festival poetry competition. He is a 2005 Lancaster Litfest winner. In 1998 and in 2005 he was short–listed for The Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition. In all he has had twenty-three national and international poetry competition awards. Philip Burton is known to children as "Pip The Poet". Twelve of his poems for children have been published in major antholgies in the last few years. Steve Rudd, Managing director of The Kings England Press, (publisher of the phenomenally successful Gez Walsh) said of the collection The Treasure Shop, "..…cries out for a national publisher." Many of his poems have been illustrated by Steve Hutton. Philip has visited over one hundred schools and libraries in the last few years, as a writer in education, providing poetry days for children 4–14, and has built a reputation for providing enjoyable and educational performances and workshops. In 2004 he gave a successful presentation at the NAWE annual conference in York on the theme of VOICE. He was appointed as a mentor by NAWE. Over two hundred and fifty of his poems have been published in a range of literary magazines during the last seven years, including: P.N. Review , Stand, Smiths Knoll, Orbis, Envoi, Brando's Hat, The Frogmore Papers, The Swansea Review, Links, Prism International (Canada), and Troubadour (USA). His first collection, The Raven's Diary, published by Joe Publish, was greeted with enthusiasm on both sides of The Irish Sea. Six other pamphlets and a first full collection have followed. Admirers of his work include Michael Schmidt, Derrick Buttress, and Don Paterson. Five of his poems were included in the Peace Poems anthology (Crocus Books) in 2003. Jessie Lendennie at Salmon Publishing accepted a collection of his, The Raven's Diary, for publication in 2001. Inflation, and an Irish government directive restricting publication of non–Irish writer's, meant cancellation. Philip has for some years judged the Burnley Writers Circle annual poetry competition; he has also judged the Manifold Found Poem competition, and Rossendale Writer's poetry competition in 2003. He was hailed by Ros...

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      Too Young to Forget - Philip Burton

      Too Young to Forget

      By Philip Burton

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      ©PHILIP BURTON 2011

      ISBN 978-1-904124-12-2

      All work copyright the author

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Printed by Kershaw Print Ltd., Rossendale, Lancs

      Painting Poppies in the Estuary by Lynn Bushell

      All rights reserved

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I dedicate this book to my family and to those who have inspired with the poetry of their lives and works: Lynn Bushell, my tutor Copland Smith, Anne Ryland, and D.A.Prince.

      P.N. Review included A Word to the Unwise and Come Day Crow Day in Issue 130. Stand, volume 5 (2) published The Eviction, From The Calm Sea, and Antrin Lichtnin. The Frogmore Papers published Pendle Heritage in September 2001, # 58. Smiths Knoll published dear life in # 38, 2006. The London Magazine included Talking through the top of a glass hat, # April/May 2008. The Royal Festival Hall, Dunsop Valley Spell, and flower of chivalry, are published in The David Jones Journal # 2008.

      Thanks are due to the editors of the above, and to editors of the following, where poems in this book, or earlier versions of them, first appeared:

      Aabye; Borderlines; Brando's Hat; Breathe; Clitheroe Books Press; Clitheroe Writers Group anthologies; Dawntreader, Dream Catcher; Eclipse; Envoi; Fife Lines; FuseLit; Gentle Reader; Iota poetry quarterly; Konfluence; Links; 2010 Living Word Walks in St Austell and Truro; Magma; Manifold; New Hope International; Orbis; Other Poetry; Parnassus Literary Journal, Georgia USA; Peace Poems (Crocus Books, 2002); Pennine Ink; Poetry Cornwall; poetry monthly; Poetry Now; Poetry Nottingham (eighteen poems in all); Poetry Scotland; Prism International, Canada; Quattrocento; Rain Dog; Sarasvati Literary Magazine; Seam; Skald;

      Teaspoon Books (2011); The Affectionate Punch; The Brobdignagian Times, Cork; The Coffee House; David Jones Journal; The Piedmont Literary Review, Santa Cruz, California; The Swansea Review, Weyfarers.

      Ship Of Rules was a winner of the Lancaster Litfest Poetry Competition in 2005.

      The Pocket Watch was short-listed for The Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition in 1998, and The Roost received a commendation in 2009. Blessed-fair Sonnet won the Hammicks National Poetry Day Prize, Liverpool in 2002. Holy at Home was short-listed for the Manchester Cathedral International Poetry Competition 2003 and was published in the anthology Taste, published by The University of Central Lancashire, in 2006. The Poetry Shed was short-listed for the Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition in 2004. The Knave’s Grave won second prize in the ManyHands Café Poetry Competition, Winter 2009.

      The anthology Passing Clouds, Big Lamp Books, 2000, includes Pendle Heritage and The High Road. Blue Grass Blues, Too Young to Forget and Men in Black are included in the anthology Peace Poems, Commonword/Crocus Books, 2003. Antrin Lichtnin is included on a CD, Falling, published by Ann Wilson, in Barrow. Trick of Light is in the anthology Only Connect, Cinnamon Press, 2007. Maps was included in the 2010 Living Word Walks in St Austell and Truro.

      ~~ CONTENTS~~

      NURTURE

      DEAR LIFE

      HEAD OF THE RIVER

      A LAD'S ESTATE

      FAMILY GETAWAY

      GRASS OF PARNASSUS

      THE FLYING COAT

      CRACKING PAPER

      TOWARDS MARS

      THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

      GOOD NIGHT TO MY 1951 ROOM

      BIKING MAD

      DOWN TO PARADISE

      RAMSGATE EAST CLIFF SONG

      RUBY

      THE POCKET WATCH

      THE TWILIT ROOM

      THE DRY SPELL

      ONE

      DEAR ANNE,

      READY FOR THE SHOW 

      ON SNOW

      DROPPING YOU OFF

      NATURE

      THIS PLACE …

      THE ALLOTMENT CHAIR

      BLUE GRASS BLUES

      THE SAND GARDEN

      PENDLE HAY RIDE

      DUNSOP VALLEY SPELL

      THE ROOST

      SMUGGLED COLOUR

      GROOSH DITCH RIDDLE

      THE NEW OASIS 

      DRABA

      FORBIDDING PASTURE

      DRY-STONE SKETCH

      ODE TO SHEEP

      THE HIGH ROAD

      SKYLARK

      THE BRAVE BLACKBIRD

      ANTRIN LICHTNIN

      GUEST WORKER

      LATE AUTUMN WHISPERS

      THE BLIND ELEPHANT

      A PINE FOREST FIRE

      NECTAR 

      PICKLED GHERKINS

      CLOVE

      A POSTCARD TO A BAKER

      THE PIZZA MAN

      NEAR NAUTICAL 

      THE GOLDEN CAGE

      TRYST

      BRACHYURA

      SHIP OF RULES

      …FROM THE CALM SEA 

      SEA VIEWS

      WITH A NOD TO BEACHY HEAD

      SPIRIT OF BOSCASTLE

      BANDSTAND

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