Arthur Richardson

I’ve been making occasional poems for around fifty years. I’ve intermittently had a few published in local poetry magazines, Buzzin Bards Manchester anthology, Hidden in Childhood anthology and the Morning Star.

I’m publishing these pieces in no particular chronological order but they range in date of composition from around 1970 until 2023. Many are autobiographical in conception but often veer away into fictional development. Some deal with family, others are love poems; there are political themes and they sometimes deal with disillusionment and lost dreams, whilst others are satirical or polemical and there are occasional attempts at humour.

I’ve had a varied working life, doing all kinds of jobs including labourer, bin worker, bus driver, railway worker and trade union official. I’m now retired and looking to amuse myself. Hence this project to publish online a few of these poems that have been sitting in files, fading to dust in some cases, over the last five decades, as well as some newer work.