TREVOR WRIGHT
HS2 Haiku
New high speed train link
Gets you faster to where you
Cant afford to go
Or
Out of the Mouths
We started out in along the tree
lined north road whose warm
ambers shimmered under
the hoary moons glint.
‘I like it when the leaves start
to fall’ she gazed ‘as that’s when
you can see how the branches
connect up the stars’.
Faced with this, what’s a man
to do other to look up, look
down, wipe his eyes and gently
squeeze her hand.
Trevor Wright
Trevor has worked in health and social care for 35 years, now specialising in autism training and consultancy. He was the co-director of Derby Poetry Festival on its inception in 2017 and ran the Festival from 2018 to 2023. He is a regular contributor to poetry events in the Midlands, a member of Derby City Poets and Nottingham’s DIY Poets, has performed at the Nottingham, Gloucester, Morecombe and Ludlow Festivals, Gateway to Southwell and the Edinburgh Fringe. Trevor has been a commissioned writer on the Writing East Midlands Elder Tree Older Peoples Psychiatric, Local: Vocal coalfields, and Beyond the Spectrum projects. Trevor has contributed to several poetry anthologies including Nottingham (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) and Over Land Over Sea (Five Leaves Press). He has two poetry collections, Outsider Heart and Salt Flow published by Nottingham based Big White Shed.
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
SHAUN BELCHER
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 from 1979–81
where he sat under a tree with Adrian Mitchell.
Began writing poetry in the mid 1980s and subsequently has been published
in a number of small magazines and a poem ‘The Ice Horses’ was used as the title of the Second Shore Poets Anthology in 1996.(Scottish Cultural Press).
He now lives in Nottingham, England after two years in Edinburgh studying folk culture and several years in the city of expiring dreams working as a minion at the University of Oxford.
He is currently enjoying retirement from 20 years of teaching and hopes to write something on a regular basis again. He has been involved in various literary projects including delivering creative writing workshops in Nottingham prison for the ‘Inside Out’ project. He helps Neil ‘Mad Bear’ Fullwood run the Book that is always Open.
He supports Arsenal football club.
Favourite colours therefore red and green like his politics.
We have not won the world cup again since 1966 and Shaun Belcher is not as famous as Simon Armitage although his songs are better.
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