I Meet Myself Returning

"Whichever way I take I meet myself returning."

A poetic journey from the mills and moors of the industrial north to the meals and mosques of the Byzantine middle-east and back again. I Meet Myself Returning is about finding your feet in our convoluted world and letting them take you to a place to call your own. And, occasionally, stopping off for a pint.

"For those of us who struggle with the concept of permanence, who gulp when we're asked where we're from and shiver when we're asked who we are, I Meet Myself Returning is a collection that is sorely needed. It's the antidote to the straight-edge, consumer-driven Grand Designs poison of 21st Century life and it should be prescribed to everybody." Geneviève L. Walsh, spoken word artist

"John Darwin's poems are when one pint with an old friend turns into six. When you spend five minutes walking around a city that you've never visited before, but somehow feel at home. His words are visceral and delicate and vulnerable and utterly engrossing." Matt Abbott, poet, educator & activist

John Darwin thought he was a poet from birth but was kicked into action by his Dad's terminal illness and a desire to do something more than shifting papers and supping pints. He was the host of Write Out Loud Sale for two years, a member of A Firm of Poets for a couple more and is co-host at Spoken Weird, Halifax. He lives, drinks, loves and laughs in Prestwich, North Manchester.

"This is a book about location, feeling at home. It's about feeling homesick when you don't know where home is. I have felt at home as a very young lad in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where I was born... In West Wales on childhood family holidays... In Yorkshire where I grew up. It's about finding a foreign culture which made me welcome and feeling loved In Turkey, the streets, bars and bridges of Istanbul are my second home. It's about the joy of lazy summers with loved ones on the coast. It's about the accumulation of wealth, acquisition, the constant striving for more things; the things which make us sad." John Darwin

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