Middlesbrough, 1966: The young new English teacher, John Foggin, rolled into the Lower Sixth's Eng. Lit. lesson like a Dyson* into a world of broken Hoovers. Joyce and Shelley and Gerard Manley Hopkins danced in his wake, vividly alive and slightly intoxicated. That's how it seemed to 16 year-old Andy Blackford, anyway.
Almost 50 years later, they were reunited here in Staithes. Foggin was already a much-lauded poet - Blackford's prime contribution to high culture, the TV jingle for Um Bongo.
They resolved to write a poem each, every week for a year. The result is Gap Year, a collection that has won them the SPM Publications Poetry Book prize and was published this summer.
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