Last writes
Before mobile phones, poets were advised to carry a notebook and pen at all times, so that whenever and wherever the perfect poem came to them, they could write. They could also make the deliberate choice to leave the wherewithal for notemaking at home and go on holiday freed from the pressure of writing.
That was the last thing poet David Fillingham of St Helens, Merseyside would do. He discovered that travelling produced a surge of creativity, and whether he was going on holiday or travelling for business, he was likely to come up with new ideas. The journey itself allows headspace which full time work denies, with the bonus of the stimulus of new
