The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
Roy Marshall - Bowes Road
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
Bowes Road
I’d never seen rats run on cables before
nor heard windows vibrate
to the throb of HGVs.
Jim was a native, toured his manor
like a lord, his car stereo booming
I Wanna Be Adored
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