FRANCIS H POWELL AUTHOR OF FLIGHT OF DESTINY AND OTHER STORIES
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AN INTERVIEW WITH  Trevor Millum 

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Tell everybody a little about yourself

I write mainly but not exclusively for children – both poems and stories. Over the years, the majority of my writing has comprised educational resources to do with writing and creativity. My friend Bernard Young and I have just completed ‘The Poetry Handbook’ which will be published this autumn by Troika.  I write the resources for the Poetry Place which is part of the Teachit website. www.teachit.co.uk/poetryplace  
I’ve had a very varied career. My website www.mouseandmuse.co.uk tells all!

Was your creativity affected in anyway during the lockdown? Did being lockdown make you feel inspired or deflated?
Not really. The only negative aspect was that the regular performances I take part in (a group of musicians, storytellers and poets) ceased.  That used to be a stimulus to write new material, often for two or more voices.

How did you occupy your time?
Writing, researching, gardening and decorating. I’m working on my father’s gardening diaries at the moment which involves both family and horticultural research.

What was the main thinking behind your poem submitted to Together Behind Four Walls ?
 I have always liked Edward Thomas’s ‘Adlestrop’. I also enjoy writing parodies so the idea of linking the structure of the original to the current situation was quite natural.

What inspires most of your poems,
Most of my published poetry has been for children and is either inspired by experiences with or memories of them.   Alternatively, a publisher or editor might ask for poems on a particular subject, in which case, it’s a metaphorical poke in the ribs: ‘get thinking!’
 
Do you have any favourite poems, from all the poems you have written?


It’s a toss-up between ‘Exploding Heads’ and ‘Sad I Ams’ – perhaps the latter, as it’s inspired so many other versions by writers young and old.  For adults it would probably be one of the many sonnets I’ve become addicted to writing over the years.


 Do you remember the first poem you ever wrote or one of the first?
 
It was a dreadful piece of doggerel about my teachers.

Do you hand write poems or go directly on to your computer?

It depends where I am and what is to hand.

Do you do any other creative activities?
 
Yes, I draw in pen and watercolour and have illustrated some of my own work.

Do you only focus on poetry or do you also write prose?

I have written many short stories, especially for young adults. Sometimes the shortest ones (e.g. 300 words) aimed at teenagers with a low reading age, have been the hardest to write.

Do your poems ever have strong messages?

Not deliberately. I dislike being preached at so I try to avoid doing it myself.

If you had to write a poem about yourself, how would it start?

I used to know the road to me / but it has got overgrown / and now the way is hard to find….








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      • interview with Cynthia Vespia
      • Interview with Josiane Vincent
      • Interview with Laura Mucha
      • Interview with Chris White
      • Interview with Carmina Masoliver
      • Interview with Crysse Morrison
      • Interview with Alan Durant
      • Interview with B the Poet
      • Interview with Arti RAI
      • Interview with Neal Zetter
      • Interview with Andrena Zawinski
      • Interview with Trevor Millum
      • Interview with Alison Brackenbury
      • Interview with Toby Campion US
      • Interview with Hadley James Hoyles
      • Interview with Leela Soma
      • Interview with Bernard Young
      • Interview with Coral Rumble
      • Interview with Sue Hardy -Dawson
      • Interview with Dom Conlon
      • Interview with D.L. Lang
      • Interview with AF Harrold
      • Interview with Monique Tell
      • Interview with Stewart Taylor
      • Interview with Cliff Forshaw
      • Interview with Professor Elemental
      • Interview with Marcus Christopherson
      • Interview with Stephanie Davidson
      • Interview with Brook Fischer
      • Interview with Rita Rana
      • Interview with Rhian Edwards
      • Interview with Josh Louis Lingg
      • Interview with Nina Zivancevic
      • Interview with Armand Ruhlman
      • Interview with Christine De Luca
      • Interview with Hélène Argo
      • Interview with Giselle Marks
      • Interview with Thomas Stockley
      • Interview with Giselle Marks
      • Interview with January L'Angelle
      • Interview with Martin Figura
      • Interview with Dennis Copelan
      • Interview with Laura Zuwa
      • Interview with Iam Thandi
      • Interview with Gail Meath
      • Interview with Alun Robert
      • Scottish Poets
      • Jonnie Dalton
      • Welsh writers
      • Okorie Harrison
      • interview with Meo
      • interview with Mark Blickley
      • interview with Christopher T. Dabrowski
      • Ray Clark
      • Derek Thompson
      • Lynne Reid Banks
      • Paula Claire
  • Francis H Powell interviews with other authors
    • Interview with J. C. Michael
    • interview with Gavin Hill
    • Interview with Morris E Graham
    • Interview with Wally Runnels
    • interview with John Nicholl
    • interview with Rob Same
    • interview with Elizabeth Oberbrunner
    • Interview with Michael Wilkins
    • Interview with Karina Kantas
    • Interview with Justin Bienvenue
    • interview with James Hershey Jr
    • Interview with Brian Parker
    • interview with Roma Gray
    • interview with Rebecca Reid
    • interview with Samual Friedman
    • interview with Cynthia Vespia
    • Mark Anthony Tierno
    • Spotlight >
      • Spotlight Tiffany Appen
      • Spotlight on LaToya Wilson
    • interview with Jean Lowe Carlson
  • download interview questions for authors
  • Book Reviews
  • Tiffany Alpen, Kindred (The Birthrite Series, #2)
  • Together Behind Four Walls
  • The Fish King and the Two Wise Ghosts