Richard Maslen: Blythburgh Poet

Richard arrived permanently in East Suffolk in 1986, from Nottingham via Hertfordshire. Writing since 1953, working in the South Wales docks in the R.A.F. at night began his particular love of places, people and landscape.

He is represented in many anthologies, is a prizewinning poet and recently saw his poems featured on the South Bank in London during the London Art exhibition
"The Art of Love". Among the poems chosen by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, was "Two Sisters" which featured on the walls of the gallery.

Of the three collections published so far, only "A Kind Of Heaven" is still available. Its title, Richard says, describes exactly his life living next to Angel Marsh in Blythburgh.

His work to date encompasses not only landscape but family life, love, spiritual matters and much more. He is currently putting together another collection which will be quite different and, he hopes, surprising!

"A Kind of Heaven"
ISBN 0 9518024 1 0
price £4.50
Available at all bookshops to order.
Email: richardmaslen@blythburgh.net

[ Click here to read a selection of Richard Maslen's Poems ]