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from HUW BRIS by Huw Parsons

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This poem is named after the cargo that was carried by countless Bristol ships to the West coast of Africa, where it was exchanged for slaves. However, the poem has nothing to do with the slave trade but is about a passionate encounter in Clifton's camera obscura.

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from HUW BRIS, released April 10, 2013
Voice – Huw (part - recorded at The Halo Café.) Music – The Remi Harris Trio.

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Huw Parsons Hay On Wye, UK

Huw Parsons was born in 1954, grew up in Llyswen, near Hay on Wye, and educated at Brecon Boys’ Grammar School and Chelsea College of Art.

He feels neither wholly English nor particularly Welsh, with his life’s diversity a social impostor and a cultural chameleon.

His influences: the poems of John Betjeman & Phillip Larkin, the novels of Leslie Thomas, the song lyrics of Sting & Jake Thackray.
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