Vernon Goddard
Vernon is Welsh, married, a grandfather and currently living in Nocton. His poetry is mainly about childhood, places he has lived, people he has met. His current themes are around memory, relationships, family and the passing of time.
He has worked in education as Teacher, Lecturer, Principal of Cowbridge Community College and Director of Dyffryn Conference Centre and Botanical Gardens. Towards the end of his career he joined Lloyds Bank as Senior Manager, Operations, running its Management Centre in Surrey. At the time of the merger with TSB he ran all their Training establishments at Kingswood, Solihull, Telford and Guildford. At the time of retirement, on Millenium night, he project managed the Year 2000 operation for the Bank.
His favourite poets are John Clare, T.S.Eliot, Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman, and Ted Hughes.
The Pimento group of poets has been an ideal platform for developing and expanding his work and the further understanding of the nature and purposes of the written word.
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