• CHALKLAND: The Collected Poems 1984-2024

    This is an ongoing project I just started and will take time to complete. I began writing poetry in my hometown of Didcot in 1981-2 after a few perfunctory ‘poetry’ lectures at Hornsey College of Art introduced me to Larkin, Heaney and Hughes. Then a slightly tipsy Adrian Mitchell joined us under a tree in…

  • WHO IS Shaun Belcher?

    Shaun Belcher: The Back Story Short paperback BIO version Shaun Belcher was born Oxford, England in 1959 and brought up on a down-land farm before moving to a council estate in the small town of Didcot in 1966 just as England won the world cup.. He studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art, London…