Geoff Hattersley
Geoff Hattersley was born in South Yorkshire in 1956. He has performed his poetry in numerous venues over the past twenty-two years, including the Royal Festival Hall; Morden Tower, Newcastle; Aldeburgh Poetry Festival; John Hewitt International Summer School, Northern Ireland; University of Bangor; and Hull Literature Festival.
He has run writers’ workshops for various organisations including the Workers’ Educational Association and the Poetry Business, Huddersfield.
He edited The Wide Skirt from 1986 until 1998, publishing 31 issues of the magazine and 24 books and pamphlets. He is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University and is working on a volume of new and selected poems.
Smith/Doorstop titles
You Don’t Dream At All If You Can Help It
It’s tough for a spoilt kid in a cold world
and you’re grateful you were never that kid
but still the world is tough, the world is tough.
Banks and charities and castles and locks –
stuff that makes no sense everywhere you look.
You feel like you’ve been to the moon and back
only for some nitwits to convince folk
you were fooling around in a desert.
If you’re lucky you’ll make it to sixty,
you already like playing the old man.
You try hard not to think of the future,
a place where kids play games with human bones.
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