Rg Gregory: 7 books

CRUCIAL EXPERIENCES is part of RG Gregory’s venture to turn nearly seventy years of writing, (poems, plays, fiction, non-fiction and poem-graphics) into e-books. RG Gregory was born in Southampton in 1928, the second of five children of a docker. He was evacuated to Bournemouth in 1939, joining...

Crossing the line was written during 1966. In a blank verse clearly got at by the rhythms of the sea, the poet draws together his feelings about his own country at the time and his wish to get free of it for a while; and then explores, through the events and people on board, the practical and symbolic...

poems provoked by some of the proverbs of hell listed in the marriage of heaven and hell by William Blake.

There is writing in them that pleases me. So I have mingled them amongst the short pieces, making the book a gathering of oases that have spurted a little water, or have run out of a proper supply.

Three collections of poems based upon art reproductions, photographs and other card designs. After a visit to the Hiroshige Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London during September 1997, I purchased a pack of ten cards, thinking they were all different, with a view to writing a poem on each to celebrate...

Nought (Snapshot for Victor Sugar); again, using autobiographical material to start with, but moving into a narrative that moves in and out of “reality”. Starts in Scarborough where George, an old man lives on his own. A strange experience causes him to enter a short-story competition in honour of...

Combining a Mummers’ play format with the Green Man these five seasonal plays from Summer One, through Autumn, Winter and Spring, to Summer Two, exploring the traditional movements of the year, through the relationship of Robin and Kate.