The A to Z of Gerard Woodward: F is for Falmouth...
...where I failed to be an art student, and where I got married. Also, where I started writing. Although I've been writing continuously since I was eleven, I started my post-juvenile writing career in Falmouth, after bumping into Peter Redgrove in The Kings Head. I had just written a few poems about Cornwall and he invited me along to a poetry workshop. This started a surge of writing whose wave I'm still riding.
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