Homage to a Teacher

I have walked the length of the - pictured - Dark Hedges: an avenue of impressive beech trees along a country road in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The poems offered here, are not rooted in one place, but spring from many inspiring sources. Their gestation has not been spaced within a determined period. They are the preserved product of a life time. Each poem has led to the creation of another. They flourished like leaves in an abundance of greenery and now I hope they provide the reader with an oasis of refreshing thoughts. Included here, are comments of appreciation on "Homage to a Teacher, Selected Poems 1"."Your poems of nature, the seasons and your sensitivity in choice of words makes things come alive. You don't impose fine words on them as if to impress or overwhelm; instead you give them a voice, - their voice. And then at the right moment, subtly yet unobtrusively, you introduce your voice, which speaks an even deeper truth." Pat Logan, London "Your book of poems conveys a rare awareness and sensitivity, an awareness of a wider world reality than most see or experience. I love so many of them, but this morning, "Autumn Revelation" feels so much in touch with the rhythms of nature, and indeed the rhythms of life and death. You see the world with a sort of enlightened eye, I think." Inez McLeary, Scotland

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Anthony J. M. Brady was born in 1940 in London. He retired in 1994, having completed a career in local government as a Principal Officer Team Leader with the London Borough of Camden, from whose Chief Executive's Department he had been seconded to the Department of Health & Social Security (Resettlement Centres) for 15 years. In 1997, he moved to Northern Ireland. His first writing in print was an essay in the London Chest Hospital Staff Magazine: Shakespeare and Medicine (1964). His first letter to a newspaper appeared in the Catholic Herald and this led to a series of polemical exchanges in its letter's page about the American/Vietnam War with the writer John Braine (1969/70). His first writing fee was for a book review: Caring on Skid Row by Anton Wallich-Clifford the founder of The Simon Community, commissioned by The Catholic Herald (1974). Subsequently, (1981-1986) he had letters published in The Catholic Universe, Hackney Gazette, The Guardian, The East Ender, The East London Mercury and The Greenwich Mercury on topics such as Apartheid; Drug Addiction; Homelessness and social justice issues. Many of his letters on topical issues have appeared in The Fermanagh Herald and The Impartial Reporter. The Guardian printed four of his letters (1987-1990). A Paper entitled helping the Resettled Person with a Relapsing Drinking Problem was published by the Charity, Good Practices in Mental Health. ISBN 0 948445297 The short story 'Sister of Mercy' was published by the weekly magazine Ireland's Own and in 2004 an historical profile about Angela Burdett-Coutts: Queen of the Poor, was published by the bi-monthly magazine Ireland's Eye. Since 2003, he has had published (in anthology) numerous poems in various publications under the aegis of Forward Press: Anchor Books, Triumph House and New Poetry Dogma Publications have also published his poetry in anthology. Other works comprise Castle Coole - Millennium Evocations - A National Trust house tour in verse. In 2017, Tony's quartet of memoirs Scenes from an Examined Life has been published by tredition.co.uk. In 2018, his books Homage to a Teacher, Selected Poems I and Homage to a Teacher, Selected Poems II were published by tredition.de.