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Talking Myself
Home Here’s a portrait of an unregarded
place -
Darfield, near
Barnsley
, a place mentioned (briefly) in the Domesday book and now trying to
reinvent itself after the wholesale closure of the mining industry. And
a love story between Lt Cdr J. McMillan, a Scottish sailor and Olive
Wood, a young lass in
Yorkshire
.
The life story is
that of John and Olive’s son, the Bard of Barnsley, from
Low
Valley
Junior
School
and
Wath
Grammar School
to Oscar the Frog (Barnsley’s first folk-rock band) and Jaws (
Barnsley
’s first folk-poetry duo) and beyond. A life lived with words at its
core.
“In some ways it’s a tiny life; a few ripples in a
pond far from the centre of things, a few lines written in celebration
and commemoration of places and times that deserve better. In another
way it’s a shout of hope, that we can find the centre anywhere and
celebrate it.”
Talking Myself Home
Ian McMillan
John Murray Publishing
ISBN 978 - 1 - 84854 - 045 - 3
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