Books By John, Chairman of the Society of Garden Designers Brookes - Author

The ex-editor of The Yellow Crane, (`the Beano of poetry magazines'), J. Brookes was born in London in 1951 and enjoyed a ramshackle early life, hitching around and sleeping in hedges. Like many who take poems seriously, he began writing as a result of reading poetry happy to see if he could do it in any plausible way. He lives in Cardiff, where he reads and swans round on the bus.