James Baravore

lIMERICKS POETRY PROSE

This collection of Poetry, prose and song from the last 25 years, is effectively a record of my thoughts and emotions. Written while living, working and playing music from my Yorkshire - Irish perspective. It ranges from humorous to melancholy, fact to fiction.

About the Author

Hi, My name is James Baravore. I’m second generation Irish.

My parents came from Wicklow and Dublin. Finding life stymied in Ireland they moved to England in the 1950's. They left along with many others on the

‘cattle boat’ bringing the first two of my sisters in their arms.

I was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. A northern industrial town cradled by a chequered blanket of valleys, hills, black drystone walls and weather.

I have left the words in their original form, resisting the temptation to change in retrospect. After all, that would be today’s me, a different me from the one who wrote them. They may stand or fall as they are.

The writing to date was private and unpublished except; ‘second Generation’.

This being my first attempt at a competition managed to be selected and published for a YMCA anthology in the 1990's. It was also set to music by

Peter Lane and has formed part of our set list for 20 years.

I hope you enjoy them and they raise a thought, smile, frown or tear as has my journey so far.

All the best

Jim.