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Kevin Pocock

Not preaching, just speaking

About Me

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Born and bred in Dartford, Kent, Kevin attended the boys school Mick Jagger graced. The lack of ladies didn't really bother Kev at the time, though what it did to dear Mick you can judge for yourself.

Kevin was actually more concerned that he couldn't join a school football team - rugby only. His sporting passions thwarted, he sought refuge in the pen.

Escaping England, he retreated to a student haven at the fulcrum of the Mid Wales coast. There he moulded his writing self, surrounded by a community of risk-takers, dreamers, drinkers, revolutionaries. And students. To his delight, amongst the madness he was rewarded for his scrawls, but for a while the ride stopped there.

Then one day in the depths of frustration, the Internet brought the lights of London upon him. The times of change swept the dust from his nib and he wrote once more.

These days he freely plays football and speaks to the opposite sex...sometimes one straight after the other. How his younger self is green with envy. Oh, and he performs poetry...sometimes.His latest writings, things lyrical, critical, poetic and prosaic are at www.kevinpocock.comAnd there's some reviews as well.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/2/2006
Band Website: KevinPocock.com
Band Members: Kev(in) Pocock.
Influences: Eels (the band), Travis, Damien Rice, Frank Black, Josh Ritter, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson, Bob Marley, The Eagles, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, The Offspring. Tony Harrison, William Wordsworth, Coleridge, T.S Eliot, W.H Auden, Homer, Alicia Stubbersfield, Matthew Francis, Jem Poster, Michael Jackson (when he was still cool), David Hume, John H. Hick, Peter Barry, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, random philosophy, Football, rhyme, Beer (read as not lager), the creation of popular culture, aspirations, community, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Marlowe, Allen Ginsberg and consciously NOT Shhhh akespeare....he was probably Marlowe anyway.
Sounds Like: A soft, frustrated thump from your conscience.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Starting afresh.

Been awhile ladies and gents. What have I been up to? Too little creatively, that much is evident. More is to come though, never fear. www.kevinpocock.com is refreshed, fully washed down, scrubbed up ...
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:55:00 PST

Website Up

Website's now back up :o)
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:41:00 PST

Website down

Just a brief note to say that my website is down temporarily...hopefully will return to normal service shortly... :o)
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:59:00 PST

'Lord of my estate.'

Some write me up as a master of words, I am not.If I am anything, it is just a man...with a pen and some thoughts I can herd occasionally.Some incessant hums inside my walls do ebb and flow until urge...
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:56:00 PST

'FIREBRAND' IS UP

FIREBRAND IS UP. I'm pretty damn psyched.
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:10:00 PST

Poems Up...Feedback welcome

'Musaic' is up, 'Firebrand' will follow shortly.How I've missed writing new poems :o)N.B: Oh, the volume may be a little quiet on the recording, so please feel free to whack it up. No, it's not a tric...
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:11:00 PST

So there's this girl....

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Posted by Kevin Pocock on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST

Musaic..

Musaic...is coming. My nod to Allen is live.
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:56:00 PST

POEM 'Lance'

I don't take compliments very well.And as you're only as good as your last performance,on the train back home I thoughtHell! I must deliver more.Memorise my workRationailse my unique quirk.At least be...
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:11:00 PST

Learn quickly, write quicker.

Quick poetry update.Well Farrago was cool, I went first (EEK!) and mumbled my way through two poems. The second of which entitled 'My Space', was received well, but my performance left alot to be desi...
Posted by Kevin Pocock on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:36:00 PST