David Green

David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I published booklets of my own poems. The original allocation of ISBN numbers is used up now, though. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become, often more about music than books and not so often about poems. It will be about whatever suggests itself.

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Worth checking

There has been a tendency for governments to divulge bad news when it might be hidden beneath other, arguably more trivial, stories in the media.
So I just had a look at the BBC. As far as I can see, Jacob Rees-Mogg is still not Prime Minister. So, go on, Theresa - Blair liked football so much that he employed an advisor to find him a footballer to say he liked and he was provided with Steed Malbranque - so tell us whether Kieran Trippier is better than George Cohen or not.
What I did find was an interesting item about whether or not one is named after a footballer,
Are you named after a footballer
No, I'm not. I was named after a cricketer, David Sheppard, who opened the batting for England before becoming Bishop of Liverpool. I was closer to emulating him in one vocation more than the other.
Not much closer, I know, but closer nonetheless.

As my friend once jocundly observed, I could have been named Raman Subba Green.