Trains in the Distance

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Notes about my poetry, my workshops and what it's like to do a PhD. Living and working in the Yorkshire Dales. The sound of a train called SIXTY rumbling a few years away.

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About Trains in the Distance

I'm a poet living in North Yorkshire on the edge of the dales and near Bronte country. Last October I started a PhD and I'll be 60 the year after I finish it. Trains in the distance that are getting closer.

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