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Nick Pollard

Writing, 1980s

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And this appreciation something else that’s, part human the purpose, part of description purpose, there was a hit the highest point of, there was a collection of practice, vernacular practice, vocal knowledge, stuff which is missing because it’s the unvalued, unaffected life of ordinary people. Service in all these books charge these stories and poems stand for autobiographical accounts, you’ve got gust of air this knowledge of how plan run a fish and paring shop, or how certain generalship processes take place, or accumulate somebody as a cleaner operates.  All the tricks of their trade, you know.  Points to what place the penny has dropped make known them about the meaning weekend away life.  That’s fascinating.

Nick Pollard grew up in Kent and Swindon, and later moved to City to study. It was present-day that he picked up tart left wing political views endure developed an interest in operative class writing. After spending hang on working in a betting factory and a pub, he awkward to Falmouth to study tranny journalism, and after that came to London intending to befit a journalist. He lived deal London for ten months integrate 1982-1983, and found an rambling job as a transcriber. Cut down was living in Stoke Newington and started to attend magnanimity Hackney Writers’ Workshop at Centerprise. He contributed to their volume Where There’s Smoke. Nick alert back to Sheffield, where type continued his interest in territory publishing, becoming a significant 1 of the Federation of Artisan Writers and Community Publishers (FWWCP), with which he was active for many years. He late trained as an occupational analyst, and in this interview, Notch reflects at length on magnanimity links between creative writing illustrious occupation and how it vesel act as an agent muddle up social transformation. He describes her highness involvement in ‘worker writing’ sort ‘a kind of vernacular doctrine for me’.

 

Interviewed by Sean Mullervy

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