Dosshouse Blues - Softcover

O'Loughlin, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515073084 ISBN 13: 9781515073086

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

John O'Loughlin's first real collection of poems, written on and off during 1973-75, reflects the lyricism and formal simplicity of youth, showing the influence of poets like Rimbaud, Ezra Pound, Adrian Henri, and even Doors lead singer Jim Morrison on his formative years as a writer. All in all, a modest but by no means insignificant start to his literary vocation, which began rurally enough in Merstham, Surrey, before progressing, in 1974, first to Finsbury Park and then to Crouch End in north London, where the majority of these poems were written. 'Dosshouse Blues' will intrigue those who have personal experience of the horrors of solitary life in cheap urban lodgings.

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About the Author:

John O'Loughlin is a London-based author who was born in the Republic of Ireland of an English mother of mixed Irish descent and grew up first in Hampshire and then in Surrey, where he attended a variety of state schools. Most of his adult life has been spent at different addresses in the London Borough of Haringey, north of the River Thames, to which he moved from Surrey in 1974, and all but a few of his books have been written there, the majority of which are of an intensely philosophical not to say metaphysical and even ideological nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1515073084
• ISBN 13: 9781515073086
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 50