Paul Henry.

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Paul Henry. Biography

Paul Henry was born in Aberystwyth and is one of Wales's nomimal poets. He was originally a singer-songwriter. Some of Henry's songs include, Between Two Bridges, I am Strong, Heather and Wind and Tree. History After receiving a Gregory Award he published his first collection of poems in 1990, with the Welsh based company Seren. In 1992, he attended Joseph Brodsky's poetry masterclass at the Hay Festival. His work has been widely anthologised and poems regularly appear in journals such as Poetry Wales and The Times Literary Supplement. He is a fellow of The Welsh Academy. Other interests Paul Henry is also a creative writing tutor, regularly ruining courses at Wales's writers' centre (Tŷ Newydd) and has lectured at the University of Glamorgan. Now based in South Wales, he has read his poetry and performed his songs at various venues and festivals across the UK, Europe, the USA and in India. Henry is a featured poet in the UK pages of Poetry Web International and in the British Council's authors' pages. More recently, he has presented arts programmes on local and national radio.)

The Best Poem Of Paul Henry.

Daylight Robbery

Silent as cut hair falling
and elevated by cushions
in the barber's rotating chair
this seven-year-old begins to see
a different boy in the mirror,
glances up, suspiciously,
like a painter checking for symmetry.
The scissors round a bend
behind a blushing ear.

And when the crime's done,
when the sun lies in its ashes,
a new child rises
out of the blond, unswept curls,
the suddenly serious chair
that last year was a roundabout.

All the way back to the car
a stranger picks himself out
in a glass-veiled identity parade.

Turning a corner
his hand slips from mine
like a final, forgotten strand
snipped from its lock.

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