Hi I’m James Findon and welcome to my poetry blog. I want to share with you the joy of poetry and maybe inspire you to write as well. It all started with a book I read about a guy named Edward Thomas who was a literary critic who then went on to write poetry. Tragically he was killed in World War 1 and his biography by the author Matthew Hollis is quite moving and somewhere within the grey matter decided I would like to write poetry myself. And the title for my blog was divine inspiration from a hymn “For all the saints” verse 9 ,“Sweet is the calm of paradise the blessed” written by William Walsham How in 1864. I write poetry about all different types of subjects some of which are personal some not. I also review some poetry and biography’s and have a good spread of poetry books with a lot of reading and writing to do. Poets that have inspired me recently, apart from Edward Thomas, are Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and Seigfried Sassoon. All war poets from WW1. Other poets would include Sir John Betjeman, A E Housman, W B Yeats and from more recent times Pam Ayres, who I had the pleasure of seeing on stage at Shrewsbury recently on her “Doggedly Onward” tour of which my wife has bought me a signed copy of her book. Bonus!
Disclaimer: Please note that all poetical works on this site are copyright of the author (James Findon) as well as any pictures, illustrations etc. unless otherwise stated and any copy/reprinting must have the approval of the author beforehand. My poetry is written as a way of telling historical facts, observations and personal experiences and are in no way intended to be politically incorrect, racially motivated or offensive to any of my readers. Please feel free to contact me if you have any comment or feedback on my work.
“I might be strange and like a joke, but there’s nowt so queer as normal folk”.
Please check out my other poems and articles. These can be found on the blog sub-pages:
- Book review’s.
- History Poems.
- Military Poems.
- Natural World Poems.
- Religious & Spiritual Poems.
“The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest;
Sweet is the calm of paradise the blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!”
(William Walsham How 1864)
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