James Crowden

Author, Poet & Broadcaster

Flowers In The Minefields - El Alamein to St Honorine New Book - As an anti-tank gunner with the 51st Highland Division John Jarmain saw action at El Alamein in October 1942 and then for the next six months he fought with them through the Libyan deserts, right up into Tunisia and then took part in the capture of Sicily. The 51st were often in the thick of the fighting and took terrible casualties.   Read More..
 
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In Time of Flood

Blood, Earth & Medicine
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Blood, Earth & Medicine

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This book was fine printed by Nick Sloan at the Parrett Press with an old hot lead Monotype caster and a 5 ½ ton Heidelberg printing press. A live performance dramatised by Morna Watson of Theatre of the Heart toured the Westcountry with over 50 performances. It has also been translated into French by René Agostini of Avignon University and published in Paris by L'Harmattan under the title Art de Terre et Sang.

"The sense of a committed lived life behind the verse is very strong and appealing" 
 Seamus Heaney  

"A precious and impressive invocation of that very ancient way of life" 
 John Fowles

"the originality of James Crowden and the force of his texts make me bitterly regret that for the moment at least, this poet is unknown to the French reader..." 
 Claude Roy  

"Ted Hughes territory seen from the inside"
 Andrew Langley - Daily Telegraph

Blood, Earth & Medicine - ISBN 1-872723-02-0 - The Parret Press

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