Lee Slater Biography

(N.B. Perceived similarities between characters in my poems and real life people are coincidental in nature - other than Apollo, no other character is based on any real person.) As we reach an age of hypermedia and immediacy, I would like to act as a youthful regeneration of the agéd-but-much-loved art of poetry. My poetry is mostly influenced by my own personal experiences, which many others had written about before me, but I had never understood until now. The 'Ave Luna' series is about the awakening of my feelings of love and devotion; the first time I had ever felt that way. As well as harboring some contextualisation with Greek Mythology, I would like to say that it is semi-autobiographical in the way it represents my own maturation and Apollo was designed to represent me in all the poems I write, but he serves as more an alter-ego rather than a complete replicate of me.