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The borderlands are where the past and the present and the human and the natural world meet. This is John's first poetry collection. Part One is a window into his childhood and adolescence and the events and people that influenced him along the way. It contains many amusing and some sad recollections, ending with his time as a rebellious National Service recruit; Part Two explores the shifting terrain of an adulthood that has spanned seven eventful decades. Poignant, humorous, and sometimes caught on the edge of the primeval and the mysterious, these poems paint a vivid picture of John's perspective on life from the vantage point of his 94 years.

John Crick was born and grew up in Bury, Lancashire (before Greater Manchester had been conceived), and then in Accrington. Even after decades away from the North, he still sees himself as a Northerner. He came to poetry relatively late, and puts this down to the elitist nature of the poetry world in his early days at school and college. "Borderlands" is his first collection of poems after decades of retirement from teaching in schools, colleges, adult education and the Open University.