tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post7947792021067797216..comments2024-03-19T10:12:43.882+00:00Comments on Bookride: On Collecting Books by TrampsBookridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-43953648788826830412009-08-02T07:44:41.748+00:002009-08-02T07:44:41.748+00:00Ex-wino John Healy lived on the streets of London ...Ex-wino John Healy lived on the streets of London for fifteen years before writing his great memoir The Grass Arena, he's probably the best writer to have ever spent significant time out of doors.Maximhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11118448629588487452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-37486314156040269472009-02-14T10:26:00.000+00:002009-02-14T10:26:00.000+00:00The community of artists and writers that frequent...The community of artists and writers that frequented London’s Soho in the 1940’s and 1950’s included quite a number with “no fixed address” including Paul Potts, the Peoples Poet, such as Jeffrey Bernard, Anthony Cronin, Robert Colquhoun and Robert McBride. Not exactly tramps and hobos, but close to the edge. Jeffrey Bernard regularly knocked on the door of Rowton House for a night’s lodging. The homeless included itinerant publishers too, for example Tambimutto, editor of Poetry London, and at the end of his life, David Archer, said by his father to have poured half of Herefordshire down the throats of his Soho compatriots. David Archer, not a writer himself, first published George Barker, Dylan Thomas, David Gascoyne, Sidney Graham, and latterly Dom Moraes, another sofa surfer. Archer, penniless, sadly ended his days working as a salesman in the soft furnishings and wallpaper department of Selfridges Department Store in Oxford Street, and was said to have slept there. The late Master of the Queen’s Music, Malcolm Williamson, CBE AO, was also said to sleep curled up in a bassoon case in the B.B.C. headquarters at Broadcasting House.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-62187513570480366572009-02-12T20:19:00.000+00:002009-02-12T20:19:00.000+00:00Thank you, Edwin Moore. The only reference to Chav...Thank you, Edwin Moore. The only reference to Chavelina [sic] Dunne on the 'net was to this post, and the name sounded too good to be true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-2777572606332284172009-02-12T10:33:00.000+00:002009-02-12T10:33:00.000+00:00Hi Anonymous - the marvellously named Mary Chaveli...Hi Anonymous - the marvellously named Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright wrote under the name of George Egerton. The Wiki entry seems reliable<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Egerton<BR/><BR/>Of course, we could all have just done a Philip K Dick type shift into a parallel world where we might bump into Enoch Soames, but I think the above is correct!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-21782575479334207902009-02-11T22:55:00.000+00:002009-02-11T22:55:00.000+00:00Chavelina Dunne? I don't want to sound cynical, bu...Chavelina Dunne? I don't want to sound cynical, but...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com