The collections: 'Shorelines' by Robert Cole; 'Generations' by Sean Coughlan; and 'Timesliced' by Matthew Wall, explore themes of love, loss, family, memory and nature, with wit, warmth and pathos.
Quote from Alan Bennett about 'Greenwich Reach': "Thank you for sending me your poems which I enjoyed and (high praise this) understood. I particularly liked 'Timesliced' and 'The Outing' - my sort of subject too I suppose..."
Known loosely as 'The Ashburnham Group' - principally, if bathetically, because they often meet in The Ashburnham Arms in Greenwich, South East London - Cole, Coughlan and Wall share much in common. They are all in their 40s, all family men, all journalists & writers, and all slightly overweight.
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For more information about the Ashburnham Group please email greenwichreach@o2.co.uk.
Why 'Greenwich Reach'?
The authors live in the Deptford/Greenwich area of South East London and are great admirers of T.S. Eliot. In his famous poem, The Wasteland, this extract appears:
The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails
Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
(from The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot)
'Greenwich Reach' seemed an apt title for their collection.
