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Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of King's College. He took up writing poetry in his 30s, joining Michael Donaghy ’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at City Lit. [1] In 2002/03 he was appointed Judith E Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has edited Magma magazine and was ...
John Stammers was born in Islington, where he still lives. As a teacher he has been associated with two Cambridge colleges as well as King's College London, of which he was appointed an Associate after reading philosophy there as an undergraduate. Like Isobel Dixon and Olvia Cole, if making a later start, he was one of several gifted poets who ...
And then, since somewhere in the early 80’s, as if playing folk with elements of jazz went out of vogue, any artists that attempted to do so were too few and far in between. Jazzy folk needs a resurrection. So we come to Manchester England singer/songwriter John Stammers and his sophomore album Waiting Around.
John Stammers was born in February 1922 in Woodford, and was educated at Woodford and Leyton Technical Schools, before going into the Royal Air Force during the 1939-1945 War. He served abroad in the Desert Air Force in Tunis, and with the Air Ministry Intelligence in Italy and Austria.
Professional profile. MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth) John graduated from The Royal Free and University College London Medical School in 2006. He remained in London as a junior doctor before undertaking SpR training on the North East Thames Royal London Rotation. Exposure to complex arthroplasty included rotations at the Royal National ...
by John Stammers. his hump and paunch, the shiny pink erection of his chin. dangle like transplants from a much smaller body. been a dab hand with a blinding iron. And the scold’s bridal would have been right up his Strasse. than the last rites down a back alley. And two wives. Poor old Mrs Punch finally copped it. and as many double gins.
John Stammers's first collection, Panoramic Lounge Bar (2001), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001. His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour (2005), was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2005, and the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2005, and was Poetry Book Society Choice.
