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THE WILLOW POND

Mervyn Linford was born in 1946. He left Timberlog County Secondary Modern School in Basildon at the age of fifteen and has lost count at over two hundred jobs, including: transport, construction, sales, and the army. He has always had a love of poetry and started to write seriously when he was twenty-seven years old. He has been widely published in magazines, anthologies, and newspapers and has won and been highly commended in a number of poetry competitions such as: first prize in both The John Clare Cup and The Hastings Open. His work has been broadcast on national and local radio and he has had four collections of his poetry published: ‘Two Essex Poets’ with the late Frederic Vanson, and ‘Talking to the Bees’ both by The Brentham Press of St Albans; and ‘Autumn Manuscript’ and ‘The Beatitudes of Silence’ by The Littoral Press of Southend on Sea. ‘The Willow Pond’ is his first prose work to be published. The sequel: ‘Bullshit and Bootlace-Ties’ is finished and ready for print and he has two other works waiting for publication: a lyric novel ‘The Weather Man’ and a novella, ‘The Rise and Fall of Snowy Garden’. He now lives in Southend on Sea where apart from writing both prose and poetry he concerns himself with love, nature, and spiritual matters.