You Never Know

A collection of poems for occasions by John Fox, artist and cultural provocateur.
John lives in a wooden Beach House with a turf roof. Foraging like a magpie for images from Barcelona to B&Q, he creates delicate elegies, rumbustious monologues and political rants. You Never Know is a rattling recollection of sad tales, firecracker events and sudden celebratory moments.

The belief is that poetry should be a common activity, not some rarified pursuit remote from our workaday lives; the poetic should be every day, the everyday poetic. The verse is well-crafted and accessible. John Fox continues to be one of the North’s most valuable [if not always most valued] treasures and his passion for a ‘real’ and vibrant culture, as against ersatz mindless pap, sounds a brave if sometimes lonely note.
Peter Mortimer 20th August 2011 THE JOURNAL Newcastle upon Tyne

A rattling recollection of poetry containing sad tales, firecracker events and sudden celebratory moments. First published 2011, major new edition 2022.
Politics and fun, compassion and wisdom in the work of a man who still has that childlike sense of wonder. Kevin Fegan

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