Poetry

“It all started at an early age when I discovered the works of the poet Shelley. I had seen a poem on an English TV programme called Blue Peter, and I wanted to find out more. I liked the way his words made me see the world; and I related to some of them. I went out and bought his books, including an expensive facsimile of his first epic poem Queen Mab, which I still treasure. He was a dreamer but he was also proactive. He saw more in the world than most would see. It was a transformative time for me.

Reading Shelley led me on to the Shakespeare plays and their ubiquitous wisdom. I still see those plays as a gift to humanity, and they always lift my spirit. My biggest influence must be Philip Larkin though, the way a sentence can suddenly leap out with the power of a punch. Unseen, unfiltered” Paul G Terry.

With influences ranging from the Shakespeare plays, Shelley, Keats, Blake, Plath and Larkin, Paul G Terry sees creation as tapping into the “collective dream of the world”. He studied English Literature at college in Windsor, Berkshire. Whilst there, he wrote his first play. It was filled with the metaphors and vivid imagery of a poem. But it was his epic poem entitled “A Thousand Deaths” written the year before, where the journey really begun. The play has been lost, yet the poem was self published with just a few copies being made for friends. One copy still survives; it was a beginning…

Music and words have been entwined within his life. The colours, the movement and the shades all revealed in one or the other, or coming together as a song. Paul has written for short films, orchestras, choirs, rock bands and classical ensembles. Blurring the lines between ambient and classical, ‘mesmerisingly sensual’, this is the sound of music stripped back to its neo-impressionistic form.