Mindful

John Weston has done previous poetry collections: Chasing the Hoopoe (from Peterloo Poets 2005) and Echo Soundings (from Shoestring Press 2012). After 36 years of public service at home and abroad, he now lives in Richmond Surrey with his wife Sally: they have three children and seven grand-children. He keeps bees. He was knighted in 1992.

On his previous work:

Echo Soundings

“Clear-cut, classical… he uses poems as a way of cutting through received ideas, the insolence of wealth and public complacency… An impressive collection” – Grey Gowrie

Chasing the Hoopoe

“Poems consistently engaging, and displaying a high level of technical accomplishment.” – John Mole

“Generous and capacious” – DM Black, Poetry London

“There is a poignancy… his gift for elegy is considerable” – John Greening, The London Magazine