Too Young to Forget

By Philip Burton

"...interested in words ... a sure sense of rhythm ... striking images" - Copland Smith

"...he's got serious things to say" - Derrick Buttress

"... a deft observer ... conveys felt emotion with no little skill" - Michael W. Thomas

" ... poems sizzle and rasp ... not derivative but immediate and deeply felt ... deserves a wider audience!" - Barry Tebb

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philip Burton
• Release date: Apr 28, 2012

Philip Burton

Philip Burton was born in Dunfermline and raised in Ramsgate, Kent. He has been a Primary school head teacher in Lancashire and is married with five children. He is a 2005 Lancaster Litfest winner. In 1998 he was short–listed for The Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition , and for the Thetford and Wymondham Annual Poetry Competition in 1999. Philip Burton is known to children as “Pip The Poet”. Twelve of his poems for children have been published in major antholgies in the last few years. Steve Rudd, Managing director of The Kings England Press, (publisher of the phenomenally successful Gez Walsh) said of the collection The Treasure Shop, “.....cries out for a national publisher.” Many of his poems have been illustrated by Steve Hutton. Philip has visited over one hundred schools and libraries in the last few years, as a writer in education, providing poetry days for children 4–14, and has built a reputation for providing enjoyable and educational performances and workshops. In 2004 he gave a successful presentation at the NAWE annual conference in York on the theme of VOICE. He was appointed as a mentor by NAWE. Over two hundred and fifty of his poems have been published in a range of literary magazines during the last seven years, including: P.N. Review , Stand, Smiths Knoll, Orbis, Envoi, Brando’s Hat, The Frogmore Papers, The Swansea Review, Links, Prism International (Canada), and Troubadour (USA). His first collection, The Raven’s Diary, published by Joe Publish, was greeted with enthusiasm on both sides of The Irish Sea. Six other pamphlets and a first full collection have followed. Admirers of his work include Michael Schmidt, Derrick Buttress, and Don Paterson. Five of his poems were included in the Peace Poems anthology (Crocus Books) in 2003. Jessie Lendennie at Salmon Publishing accepted a collection of his, The Raven’s Diary, for publication in 2001. Inflation, and an Irish government directive restricting publication of non–Irish writer’s, meant cancellation. Philip judged the Manifold Found Poem competition, and Rossendale Writer’s poetry competition in 2003. He was hailed by Rosie Rogosie as “a new voice come to Manchester”, and appeared in 2000 on the same bill as Adrian Mitchell at The Burnley Arts Festival 2000. Guest Poet slots have included: Manky Poets, Manchester, The White Hart, Todmorden and Live at The Trades, Haslingden.

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Too Young to Forget

By Philip Burton

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I dedicate this book to my family and to those who have inspired with the poetry of their lives and works: Lynn Bushell, my tutor Copland Smith, Anne Ryland, and D.A.Prince.

P.N. Review included A Word to the Unwise and Come Day Crow Day in Issue 130. Stand, volume 5 (2) published The Eviction, From The Calm Sea, and Antrin Lichtnin. The Frogmore Papers published Pendle Heritage in September 2001, # 58. Smiths Knoll published dear life in # 38, 2006. The London Magazine included Talking through the top of a glass hat, # April/May 2008. The Royal Festival Hall, Dunsop Valley Spell, and flower of chivalry, are published in The David Jones Journal # 2008.

Thanks are due to the editors of the above, and to editors of the following, where poems in this book, or earlier versions of them, first appeared:

Aabye; Borderlines; Brando's Hat; Breathe; Clitheroe Books Press; Clitheroe Writers Group anthologies; Dawntreader, Dream Catcher; Eclipse; Envoi; Fife Lines; FuseLit; Gentle Reader; Iota poetry quarterly; Konfluence; Links; 2010 Living Word Walks in St Austell and Truro; Magma; Manifold; New Hope International; Orbis; Other Poetry; Parnassus Literary Journal, Georgia USA; Peace Poems (Crocus Books, 2002); Pennine Ink; Poetry Cornwall; poetry monthly; Poetry Now; Poetry Nottingham (eighteen poems in all); Poetry Scotland; Prism International, Canada; Quattrocento; Rain Dog; Sarasvati Literary Magazine; Seam; Skald;

Teaspoon Books (2011); The Affectionate Punch; The Brobdignagian Times, Cork; The Coffee House; David Jones Journal; The Piedmont Literary Review, Santa Cruz, California; The Swansea Review, Weyfarers.

Ship Of Rules was a winner of the Lancaster Litfest Poetry Competition in 2005.

The Pocket Watch was short-listed for The Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition in 1998, and The Roost received a commendation in 2009. Blessed-fair Sonnet won the Hammicks National Poetry Day Prize, Liverpool in 2002. Holy at Home was short-listed for the Manchester Cathedral International Poetry Competition 2003 and was published in the anthology Taste, published by The University of Central Lancashire, in 2006. The Poetry Shed was short-listed for the Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition in 2004. The Knave’s Grave won second prize in the ManyHands Café Poetry Competition, Winter 2009.

The anthology Passing Clouds, Big Lamp Books, 2000, includes Pendle Heritage and The High Road. Blue Grass Blues, Too Young to Forget and Men in Black are included in the anthology Peace Poems, Commonword/Crocus Books, 2003. Antrin Lichtnin is included on a CD, Falling, published by Ann Wilson, in Barrow. Trick of Light is in the anthology Only Connect, Cinnamon Press, 2007. Maps was included in the 2010 Living Word Walks in St Austell and Truro.

~~ CONTENTS~~

NURTURE

DEAR LIFE

HEAD OF THE RIVER

A LAD'S ESTATE

FAMILY GETAWAY

GRASS OF PARNASSUS

THE FLYING COAT

CRACKING PAPER

TOWARDS MARS

THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

GOOD NIGHT TO MY 1951 ROOM

BIKING MAD

DOWN TO PARADISE

RAMSGATE EAST CLIFF SONG

RUBY

THE POCKET WATCH

THE TWILIT ROOM

THE DRY SPELL

ONE

DEAR ANNE,

READY FOR THE SHOW 

ON SNOW

DROPPING YOU OFF

NATURE

THIS PLACE …

THE ALLOTMENT CHAIR

BLUE GRASS BLUES

THE SAND GARDEN

PENDLE HAY RIDE

DUNSOP VALLEY SPELL

THE ROOST

SMUGGLED COLOUR

GROOSH DITCH RIDDLE

THE NEW OASIS 

DRABA

FORBIDDING PASTURE

DRY-STONE SKETCH

ODE TO SHEEP

THE HIGH ROAD

SKYLARK

THE BRAVE BLACKBIRD

ANTRIN LICHTNIN

GUEST WORKER

LATE AUTUMN WHISPERS

THE BLIND ELEPHANT

A PINE FOREST FIRE

NECTAR 

PICKLED GHERKINS

CLOVE

A POSTCARD TO A BAKER

THE PIZZA MAN

NEAR NAUTICAL 

THE GOLDEN CAGE

TRYST

BRACHYURA

SHIP OF RULES

…FROM THE CALM SEA 

SEA VIEWS

WITH A NOD TO BEACHY HEAD

SPIRIT OF BOSCASTLE

BANDSTAND