'Who are you in dirty rags and rotten shoes, you dirty bearded blocking the way?" "We are the pilgrims master; we shall always go a little further; it may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow or across the angry and glimmering sea."
Male
29 years old
Can't define home. I move to much!, South
United Kingdom
Writing, reading, triathlon (bit rusty since uni days...need to get back into it) eating, backpacking and propensity to dream during my waking hours.
I would love to travel to the Silk Road (Saint Petersburg- Uzbeckastan-Ulanbattar (Mongolia again-lol) and then end up in Beijing. Other places I am itching to visit are Siberia, Nepal, Tibet and generally the Himalayas in general. I want to bring a moleskine notebook with me and jot in it as many observations as I can about the culture of these awe inspiring people. I have given myself a seven year period to see all of the aforementioned places. The Silk road trip will cost around 2000 pounds so I will have to delay that one!
Music
Anything that I can 'feel':
Movies
Shawshank Redemption, Typhoon (Korean), Usual Suspects, Butterfly Effect, Pi, L'Amores Peros (Love's a Bitch), The Diaros De Motocicleta (The Motorcyle Diaries), La Delicatessan', City of God, American History X, Seven Samurai,Tagoichi, Hanabi (Takeshi Katano), Cinema Paradiso, Hurricane,Ghandi (Ben Kingsley)...I could go on and on
Television
Shawshank Redemption, Monty Python and a select few other films in my archive...I don't watch much tv its all garbage!
Books
Michael Ondattje (English Patient, Anil's Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion), Dante Aligheri (Dante's Inferno), Vikram Seth (2 Lives), Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace), The Chaucer's Tales, Antoine De Saint Exupery (Flight to Arras and the Little Prince), Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffanys) Isabelle Allende(The House of Spirits), Mary Oliver (Wild Geese, Collections I and II), Alden Nolan (Bloodaxe Anthology), Colin Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road and The Lost Heart of Asia), Peter Hessler (River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze), Lawrence Durell (The Alexandra Quartet), Peter Abelard (The Letters of Abelard and Heloise), Herman Hesse (Narcissus and Goldmund, haven't read the others), Manuel Komroff (The Travels of Marco Polo), Michael Buckley (Travels in the Tibetian World), Desmond Morris (People Watching, The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's study of the Human Animal), Jared Daimond (I have read his books until they shrivelled: Guns, Germs and Steelm The Fifth Chimpanzee and the Collapse of Societies), John Pilger (Hero, Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and The Hidden Agenda), Naomi Kline (No Logo) Barry Scwartz (The Paradox of Choice), John Simspson (A Mad World,My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life) Michael Palin (Himalaya and Sahara) and the list goes on for ages!
Heroes
Ranulph Fiennes, Michael Stroud, Martin Hussey (possibly one of the most modest paeditricians I have met and an excellent friend), Michael Palin, Ernest Shackleton,Aung Sung Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Duke of Wellington, Ghandi, Shakespeare, Chekov, Dosteyevski (very hard spelling), John Pilger, Rageh Omar, John Simpson (possibly the best international news correspondants on Earth!) Peter Singer, Margaret Mead (cultural anthropologist) and...Batman (lol)!
I am a 25 year old male poet who writes under pseudonym (I specialise in caseworking for vulnerable populations and so write under a pen name) and lives in Dorset. I graduated with a 2.i in Biomedical Science, but had written poetry in the small hours to stem my boredom. My initial plan was to become a doctor, but an interest in humanitarian affairs and human rights made me think about working with vulnerable populations. I have previously gained three years experience as a caseworker working with the physical and learning disabled, but I am thinking of becoming a social worker (child protection). I am currently working in Southfields Forensic Mental Health unit in the South of England. I will gain about 1 and a half years of forensic experience before embarking on a Masters in Social Work (Qualifying Award).
Although I have written poetry since I was eleven it was only in the last 2 years that I have released pieces to the public. I have won the 'Writer's Choice' award for poetry in April 2007 and have been published in the awards anthology of the EditRed Writing Community (http://www.editred.com/RoadPoet). Also I am a featured writer in July/August issue of 63 Channels magazine. So all is good!
If you want to know more about my writing then drop me an email.
Who I'd like to meet: I would like to meet people who are artists of any sort who like to restablish their relationship to the images found in their culture.
Also anyone involved in human rights activism either as a advocate, aidworker or lawyer I would love to get in touch with you.
Besides that, I keep my writing/work and personal life seperate (yeah I know its pedantic) and so will not add random people to my writing profile.
Yeah you heard correct. I just logged on ER one day, and suddenly thought to myself what was i still doing around on the community. It has changed so much over the recent months, I don't recognise it, and any feedback i have gotten from people apart from those i speak to outside has been abysmal. I thought to myself, i better leave, and let these new rain of egomaniacs now exactly what i thought about them all. Sorry, but i haven't seen an ounce of new talent come through there. Now i am not saying i am am, i am probably far from talented, but i don't think ER has any purpose for me anymore. I will make sure to send you some new stuff sometime Ethen, and i will be looking out for yours. Have you had any luck with new publications yet? I actually got head hunted day after my ER post by a new mag, wanting a piece from me. I think i might take them up on the offer. :D
backpacking through china? That's sounds amazing! Sorry it took a while for me to get back to you. It sounds like you've been up to a lot lately. Congrats on being a featured writer, that's great. I still haven't gotten the nerve up to send anything out, but one of these days I will..hah
Teri you back stabber, talk about me and Maxine behind our backs. You're just jealous because she talks to me beyond the grave and not you. XD. Ms Devine will have her revenge child, you haven't heard the last from MS Maxine yet! Tell Enrique to be very afraid, She's coming verey soon. And in spandex! : O
Hey there Ethen. I am not familiar weith Adbusters mag so i will look it up on google in a sec. At the moment, i am writing a short story to go with some photos for my photographer friend of the same age. And i am still looking for a new home for a piece of fiction i wrote some time ago. As well as the little ole novel i am working on. It's has been a fun yet productive summer really. See ya around. Mitch
Hi thanks for the comment. To be honest I'm so busy at the moment what with work and sorting stuff out for uni. But I'm still writing and shall be back on EditRed very soon so look out for me :-)
Are you relocating to Canada this time? ;) Congrats on your acceptances! Right on, babe. I too have recieved 3 new contracts in the past 2 weeks. Looks like all is well for the both of us. Smooches and pinches. Let's chat sometime. :)
The over population in South East Asia must be really forcing Flat Earth supporters into a panic... too much weight on one side the Earth... We'll all be doomed!
hey, what's up!? Great to see you again! Congrads on the publications. :) Haven't seen you in so long, thought you slipped off the face of the earth :(
