poet
and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group The Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten
and Roger McGough
. The trio of Liverpool
poets came to prominence in that city's Merseybeat zeitgeist
of the 1960s and 1970s. He was described by Edward Lucie-Smith
in British Poetry since 1945 as the "theoretician" of the three.
Tonight at noonSupermarkets will advertise 3d EXTRA on everything
You will tell me you love meTonight at noon.
This is the morning that we burnt a cardboard hat
Well I woke up this mornin' it was Christmas DayAnd the birds were singing the night awayI saw my stocking lying on the chairLooked right to the bottom but you weren't there
Love is feeling cold in the back of vansLove is a fanclub with only two fans
Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews
Prostitutes in the snow in Canning Street like strange erotic snowmen
The daughters of Albiontaking the dawn ferry to tomorrowworrying about what happenedworrying about what hasn't happenedlacing up blue sneakers over brown anklesfastening up brown stockings to blue suspenderbelts
GUINGUINNGUINNESS ISwhite bird lying unnoticed in a cornersplattered feathersblood running merged with the neonsignsin a puddleGUINNESS IS GOODGUINNESS IS GOOD FORMasks Masks Masks Masks MasksGUINNESS IS GOOD FOR YOU