Antony J Stowers

Playing for Pride Antony J Stowers

This is a collection of my 96 poems composed between 1982 to 2020. At the start I was living at home with my parents and my main influences were classical poetry and Nature but as I moved on the subjects became more political and radical to reflect a growing self-awareness. In mid-1985 I moved to London to pursue a training in theatre and acting and, though I continued to compose poems, did not do so with as much energy as in those early days, being more abstract and reflective and less direct. Some were published in magazines and reviews, some performed in the oral tradition in live performance and others were later put to music and adapted as songs.