Small Town Kid: 1 (Poetry Memoir)

Small Town Kid is a poetry anthology that illuminates the experience of regional life as a child in an insular town during the late 1960s to the mid-1970s remote from the more worldly places where life really happens in a time before the internet and the online existence of social media. It is a time when a small town boy can walk a mile to school and back every day and hunt rabbits with his dog in the hours of freedom before sundown. He can hoard crackers for bonfire night and blow up the deputy school masters mailbox in an act of joyous rebellion. It is a time when a small town teenager will ride fourteen miles on a bicycle for his first experience of girls and of love. A time when migrating from a foreign country to a small town means his family will always feel that they are strangers while visitors to the town are treated like an invading host. It is also the remembrance of tragedy for inexperienced friends driving on narrow country roads. This collection of poems and stories shares the type of childhood that has mostly disappeared in contemporary times. Come and revisit it here in the pages of a Small Town Kid.