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It highlights his inspirations, favorite poets, and a range of published venues, alongside biographical details and representative poems such as “Aberfan.”","Poetry Series  \nColin Ian Jeffery  \n-poems  \nPublication Date:  \n2015  \nPublisher:  \n[Poemhunter.com-The World](Poemhunter.com-The World)'s Poetry Archive  \nColin Ian Jeffery(20th May 1942)  \nPublished in the February 2008 issue of DECANTO-Colin Ian Jeffery was Centre Stage Poet  \n1.􀀉What age were you when you first became interested in poetry?  \nSeven-I was a choirboy when I heard the vicar in church read out the twenty-third psalm  \nIt struck my soul with lightening and my Muse began to sing.  \nIn childhood  \nA voice called to me  \nAnd I hear it calling still.  \n2.􀀉How many years have you been writing poetry?  \nSince the green and easy balmy days of Childhood when summers seemed so long, full of adventure, magical and teasing with promise. As a boy I loved listening to Dylan Thomas reading his poems on the BBC radio Home Service.  \n3. What things inspire you to write?  \nI write best in spiritual pain-my poems are forged white hot and hammered out upon the anvil of anguish. Aspects of love-being in love-finding lovelosing love. Searching for God and a meaning to the mysteries of the Universe. My world rests upon the belief of a loving God.  \n4. What do you think of poetry?  \nPoetry is the best of mankind’s literary achievement. Timeless and appealing down the ages as the imagery of a poet’s personal experiences. Poems are the spiritual children of the poet.  \n7.􀀉Who are your favourite poets?  \nDylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, John Betjeman, Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes,  \n[www.PoemHunter.com-The World](www.PoemHunter.com-The World)'s Poetry Archive 1  \nAlfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Spike Milligan.  \n8.􀀉Who has been your greatest inspiration? You may choose more than one.  \nDylan Thomas. William Shakespeare. Spike Milligan, Vicar Paul Dunn and my father Frank Jeffery.  \n9.􀀉Do you think poetry still has a place in our culture today?  \nMankind without the imagery of poetry would spiritually be like the sun perpetually eclipsed-leaving souls in darkness never to glimpse the light. Poetry best expresses the excellence and the worst that the human heart can achieve. The Muse expresses thoughts pondered upon within the secret landscape of the heart. Poetry is as important as the beating of a heart.  \nNo more will I ramble free  \nSensuous and wanton  \nOver butterfly meadows of your heart.  \n10. What does poetry mean to you?  \nPoetry is the language of the soul-my daily bread, sweetest joy and occasionally the most tormenting rendering of unhappiness and grief. Poetry is the flickering candle within the darkness shielded against the blows of the wind.  \n11.􀀉Do you have a favourite poem?  \n'Death shall have no dominion' by Dylan Thomas  \n12.􀀉Do you do any other writing besides poetry?  \nI make my living writing books, articles and columns. My fourth book 'Fangs for the Memory’ was published recently.  \n13.􀀉Have you been published anywhere else?  \n[www.PoemHunter.com-The World](www.PoemHunter.com-The World)'s Poetry Archive 2  \nPoetry-Blackwood's Magazine, Home Words, The Lady, Punch, New Yorker, The Month, Contemporary Review, Day by Day, Reform, Poetry hurch, Africa,  \nThe British Chronicle, Catholic Pictorial, Best of British, Irish Tatler,  \nCountry Life, Outposts, Spectator, Yours, Daily Telegraph, Saint Austin  \nReview, Evergreen, Poetry Monthly, Carillon, Earth love, Reflections,  \nPoetic hours, Dandelion arts magazine, Linkway, Cauldron, Inclement, Poetic [Hours. plus](Hours. plus) included in anthologies.  \nColin Ian Jeffery was born 20th May 1942 in Caterham, Surrey, England, during World War Two. He is the youngest of two sons, Anton being two years older, of Frank and Betty Jeffery. Frank served in the artillery with the 8th army (desert rats) in North Africa. 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