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At bedtime at his grandmother's he would steal down to an old wooden trunk at the foot of the bed. From within he would take several old shoeboxes, each filled with garishly coloured postcards, letters and old curling photographs. Nurtured by their fading sepia and yellowing envelopes pungent with age, spilling with mystery, a seed of memory would be planted. His life's journey into imagination, colour and poetry had begun. A journey of words and voices. Voices that he would hear repeatedly throughout the rest of his life The Vectis Voices.
Gus Jonsson's boyhood memories of the Isle of Wight are told in a non-linear chronology sourced from the remembrance of a trove of written and visual mementos. Related through prose and poetry, they explore themes of mental health, austerity, and family in a post war working class society, and form a memoir of forbidden love and sexual awakening, the discovery and nurture of artistic talent, and social acceptance within a small community. Vectis Voices is a 'must read' for islanders and everyone who appreciates poetry and prose by one of the Isle of Wight's most sensitive and descriptive storytellers.
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