VERSUS

 

...................................Bert Collis V

The Versus series of poems were written

from 1998, forty years after the

Badonbury series. The gap between the

two series was filled by local and family history,

a teaching career, photography, glass

engraving and a growing family.

The renewed interest in poetry came from

the family history research and especially

the death of a great uncle in the battle of

the Somme, 1916. This inspired

Mash Valley and the start of the Versus series.

from 1998