Adrian Tellwright had been alive for some years when he was found in a fitted cupboard at Scotney Castle in the early 1980's.

He has since popped up in various guises: impersonating Dame Margaret Rutherford in a border hold-up between the Mexican States of Tabasco and Chiapas; as a wrangler and odd jobman on a campsite in upstate New York; as a street-vendor in Boston (Mass), where he lived in a remand centre; as a courier and dishwasher between Djanet and Tamanrasset (en Algerie) and lost, bedazed, but equipped with a few Russian phrases, on the streets of Bukhara.

He owes his life and the richness thereof to the love of several good women and men (and to a few bad ones). He is presently in York doing yoga, maths and brushing up his French. He also grows herbs, does archaeology and likes peach tea and evensong. His poems draw on some of these and other proclivities, activities, associations and adventures.

His book, Strange Shapes and Figures Colors Half Understood, is available from Hollow Hills Publishing

Words and images © 2001 Adrian Tellwright
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