by Peter Marshall | Jan 24, 2019 | Authors, News
I have just attended the funeral service of the poet Jay Ramsay. His long thin body, dressed in his favourite blue trousers, blue woollen pullover and writing cap, was held in a simple willow coffin in Littlehempston church near Totnes. He was cremated afterwards. He...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 16, 2013 | Authors, Blog
I have recently heard of the death of Colin Wilson, aged 82. He shot to fame whilst living in a sleeping bag in Hyde Park and writing ‘The Outsider’ in the British Museum in 1954 at the age of 24. I read it when I was seventeen and it introduced me to the...
by Peter Marshall | Nov 25, 2013 | Authors, Blog
I am going this coming week back to Bognor Regis in West Sussex, England. I shall see the place where I was born and grew up, only a stone’s throw from the sea. I shall also meet up with my brother Michael, my half-brothers Tom and Harry and my nephew Tim. It...
by Peter Marshall | Feb 22, 2010 | Authors, Blog
It’s always sad to hear that a good writer has died but Colin Ward for me represented the best, along with Nicolas Walter and Vernon Richards, in the British anarchist tradition. He was one of the most attractive faces of anarchism and there seems no one coming...
