Michael Shepherd (8.4.1929 / Marton, Lancashire)
farmwork; 9-14 teacher; pro-am drama; scholarship to Oxford University to study Anglo-Saxon and English Literature; dropout; backstage Ballets de Paris; industrial journalism; midlife crisis around 25; invoice typist; bookshop assistant; art journalist; book reviewer; small book on Barbara Hepworth,1963; art critic for national newspapers and magazines 20 years; radio and television work; ... more »
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R, I, P, Michael. Your life made a difference.
beautifully worded, graceful, harsh, yet so very soft...
great job, make me love poetry even more