A Feeling for Leaving - Ted Berrigan

Advantages: Ultimatly life-affirming
Disadvantages: Hard to obtain in England (try the Internet)

...I prefer American poets. British poets are too self-obsessed and parochial. Of all Modern American Poets, Jim Carroll is the most emotionally direct. While some of his early work can be contextually obscure, his heart always comes through. Carroll’s creativity pulled him through protracted Heroin addiction in the 70s. He became an over-night star in New York’s underground poetry scene, buoyed up on praise from contempories Patti Smith and Ted Berrigan and rave reviews from the legendary Jack Kerouac. His unquenchable lust for expression led him to become a luminary of the New York punk scene in the 80s; his song ‘People Who Died’ widely considered a seminal work from that period. This is a man for whom words are more than a living, they are a life. His work combines the raw hunger of the street with an unpretentious spirituality... Read review

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Advantages: Remarkable story! So descriptive an well written.
Disadvantages: Martin Booth will never write another story!

...for newspapers, travel books, biographies and Children’s books. Before taking up his pen he had quite a few different jobs, including a navvy, a clerk, a lorry driver and a teacher. From his birth in Lancashire he was then educated in Hong Kong, before heading off into all those jobs. He started writing in the 60’s, having a number of poetry pamphlets published for various magazines. Booth kept on writing and living life to the full until the final weeks of his illness stopped him ~ he leaves a wife (Helen Barber), a son, a daughter and a lot of interesting books! ~~~THE PLOT. PoW is the story of Ted Foley ~ a cabin boy who lies about his age to join the Navy in The First World War. The story begins, when Ted is 14 years old and the year is 1914. Ted’s duties aboard the HMS Nomad are to carry ammunition to the ship’s guns and the carry out any... Read review

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Advantages: Entertaining, fascinating, and thoroughly readable
Disadvantages: Not for the faint-hearted

...crime magazines. Ann Rule eventually found herself in the position of liason between Ted Bundy and Washington police authorities. This was not a position that she relished. In fact, it was particularly uncomfortable for her because she had her own nagging feelings which nearly tore her apart. It seemed that on one shoulder sat Good Ted who nearly convinced Ann Rule of his innocence; on the other shoulder sat Evil Ted who plagued her with doubts about his role as a suspect in a number of murders that encompassed a thousands of miles throughout Washington, Oregon, and Colorado before finally ending in Florida. Ted Bundy was able to hide his dark side through several long-term relationships with women who eerily enough bore a striking resemblence to the women he killed. No one knows exactly when Ted's double life began. No one knows... Read review

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