Sam Smith

Sam Smith, at age 60, with his new bus pass in hand, still knocks out written works including novels, nonfiction, poetry. A man of almost all genres, he helps define and then re-define his own areas of expertise, continuing to excel at his craft.

His usual authors' blurb includes Editor of The Journal (once of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry), publisher of Original Plus books, and Poetry Editor of The Select Six (BeWrite Books). But there is much more to this man and his writing than first seen at a glance.

Born in Blackpool, UK in 1946, he now lives in Maryport, Cumbria, "Near the Lakes, by the Sea," UK as a freelance writer, author, editor, and publisher. He has been a psychiatric nurse, residential social worker, milkman, plumber, laboratory analyst, groundsman, sailor, computer operator, scaffolder, gardener, painter and decorator, working at anything to pay the rent.

As If We Know

We, of course, couldn’t get

the elephant into the canoe.

From the shallows she began

by swimming along behind.

We assumed that

she assumed that

we knew where land was.

Next morning

the snorkel of her trunk,

septum and two nostrils,

are still visible

some way back;

disappear

during the day.

Seabirds come to rest on

the swell near the canoe,

look to us

as if we know.

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