W. H. DAVIES was born in Newport, Wales in 1871. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp appeared in 1908. He died in Gloucestershire in 1940. RORY WATERMAN was born in Belfast in 1981. His first poetry collection, Tonight the Summer's Over, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He leads the MA in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.
"Yeats, I think, must have appreciated the folk-singer in Davies. He is never pompous or pious. He is the poet as everyman, using his eyes, his humor and his common sense; a natural lyricist." --Carol Rumens, The Guardian
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