John Row (poet)

hideThis article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

John Row at the Ipswich Mayday (2008) fair in Alexandra Park, Ipswich

John Row (born 1947) is an English storyteller and public speaker with roots in Ipswich, UK.

Life[]

John Row tours schools around the world and other institutions such as prisons. He has been a presence in Texas where he has performed in detention centres for the young inmates. He was the first storyteller in residence in a British prison.^[1]

He is a regular performer at festivals throughout the U.K. He has a weekly radio show on Ipswich Community Radio one of the first community radio stations in the county which now has a full-time licence.

He is a regular contributor to 'On Track' a magazine for rail travellers in the Southern Region. Touring with singer/songwriter he is one half of 'Serious Times', a music and poetry show.

Performing in the 1960s he joined up with Graham Flight from the Canterbury band 'Wild Flowers' which spawned both 'Soft Machine' and 'Caravan'. In the 1970s he toured with Nick Toczek in 'Stereo Graffiti' and in the 1980s and early 1990s with 'Sound Proposition' an anarchic combination of free form jazz, funk and poetry which toured East Germany in the last weeks of its existence.

Throughout the late 1990s and the first half of the 2000s (decade) he concentrated on storytelling apart from on his visits to Texas where he appeared at the Austin International Poetry Festival. His book of poems for children '' was published in 1999.

He also participated in a workshop for children in Algeria on September 2012, a workshop held by the British Council in Algiers, alongside that was a workshop for English teachers and how to teach English through storytelling.

External links[]

• John Row, Storyteller
• John Row School Visits

References[]

This article about a poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t