collection of poems by Steve Rudd
ALBION is available from The King's England Press directly at www.kingsengland.com at £7.95 (print edition, 9 in x 6 in, pbk., 59pp,
ISBN 978 1 872438 65 8)
Or, if you prefer, there is an e-pub edition available from Lulu Inc at £3.99
Steve Rudd was born in Hull, East Yorkshire, in 1955, completely naked, unable to walk, talk, or fend for himself. His chief poetic claim to fame is that he once served Philip Larkin in a bookshop. Unfortunately for both parties at the time, he mistook the great man for Eric Morecambe.
He lives in West Yorkshire with a wife, a cat, and a variable number of dogs, but not necessarily in that order. His hobbies include annoying people, lying under the table with an empty can of Special Brew (which is, in itself, a form of prayer) thinking about Abraham Lincoln’s hat, and having staring contests with the linoleum.
In common with many other misguided adolescents, he began writing poetry while still at school. Fortunately for mankind, all of this early work has been lost.
Albion is his third poetry collection, and, like the other two, will probably appeal most strongly to people who have a table with one leg 0.33cm shorter than the other three.
In 2010 he was seriously ill and spent six months in hospital. Almost dying has had such a positive effect on his literary career that he is thinking of doing it more often in future.
