This article is reproduced courtesy of John Jones and the Western Mail
Exile In His Own Country, by Gareth Calway
Jun 17 2006
AUTHOR Gareth Calway returned to school at Abersychan Secondary School in May, 35 years late but with all his homework done.
He was there to launch his seventh book of poetry, Exile In His Own Country (Bluechrome, £7.99), playing truant from his job as a teacher in Norfolk to revisit the school that provides the setting and themes of a whole section of his book, Marked For Life.
The new book adds to the literature of the Eastern valley and is the first to combine a sequence under the title Torfaen Monologues, wry and bitter-sweet accounts of teenage valleys life in the 70s. It also records his lifelong love for Bristol City Football Club, for which he's official poet laureate.
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