A Man of Predictability

By Andrew Thompson

Welcome to the second collection of Andrews poetry. Some of these poems are written about his travels here in the North West of England, interpreting in verse the sights and sounds around him. Then later when unable to get about due to illness he took his inspiration from articles in Newspapers and on the Television.

The poems sum up his feelings on life in general, sometimes quite angry and disillusioned with the world around him.

Sadly this is the last book of Andrews poetry as he passed away in February 2017. This volume is published by his family in loving memory of him. We hope you enjoy reading this as much as he enjoyed writing them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546290384

Andrew Thompson

Dr Andrew Thompson is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the lead psychiatrist for the EPPIC early psychosis service and the National headspace Early Psychosis program in Australia and is currently head of clinical psychosis research at Orygen. He also retains a position as Associate Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. Andrew trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and London and in psychiatry in Nottingham and Bristol. He has an MD in clinical psychiatry from the University of London. He has worked in early psychosis practice and research for over 15 years in both the UK and Australia. He was previously clinical lead for the PACE at risk for psychosis clinic in Melbourne and has been involved in a number of research projects through this clinic and through his work at the University of Bristol and the University of Warwick. Andrew’s research interests include clinical risk factors for the development of psychosis and psychotic symptoms, novel treatments (including technology) in emerging or early psychosis, predictors of outcome in early psychosis and systems of care and prevention approaches in youth mental health.

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Published by AuthorHouse   04/19/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-9037-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-9038-4 (e)

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Burying the Dead

Verse Again

The Lost Ship

Right on the Rhine

Age

Simon

Analika

Lesser of Two Evils

Bargains

Billious Bill

Bollocks

Bury Market

Fifteen

Gas Boardin

Interlude

Jumbletown

Call of the Shibboleth

Christmas Shopping

The Road to Perdition

A Cookie Wrenchy

Designer Rise

Don’t Give Us the Euro

Pendleton Way

Disconnected

Discovering Serendipity

Parks and Mincer

Naan

Driven

Edge of Time

Template for Two

I Cannot See the Flowers

Introspection

Recycled Beer

Power

Gorton Travels

Grain

Harrytown

Hazel Grove

Homeless Days

Aftermath

Difference

Furness Vale

Art

Knife Crime

Lack of Dower

Slima (Part One)

Slima (Part 2)

Shirley Verrett

The Perfect Match

The Apostle of Faith

The Denature Man

The Edge of Bland

The Lion

Well Done

A Man of Predictability

Tin Tags and T’internet

The Sim Card Fits All

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Wee In the Dark

The Man Behind the Mask

FOREWORD

Firstly, may we thank you, the reader, for buying this copy. This book is published in loving memory of Andrew who sadly pasted away in a care home here in Stockport Cheshire on 4th February 2017 aged 52. He had been writing Poetry since 1981 the first ones written in his Teens and Twenties are published by Authorhouse under the title The Creeping Adolescent (ISBN 978-1-4343-9840-6).

He did a variety of jobs in his short