Jim Greenhalf was born in 1949 and grew up in East London. A news and feature writer for the Bradford Telegraph & Argus for almost forty years, he has written eighteen books of poetry, including The Dog's Not Laughing, The Unlikelihood of Intimacy in the Next Six Hours, Hinterland, Blue on Blue, Grassington's Reflex and The Man in the Mirror. He lives in Saltaire.

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Other poems on the web by Jim Greenhalf:
Five poems

About Breakfast at Wetherspoons:

"There is a rigour and honesty to his writing which mocks sentimentality, and a blackness to his humour which is so well controlled that it never collapses into cynicism."
—Yorkshire Post

"There is a wonderful down-to-earth quality about Jim Greenhalf's poems. They do what good writing ought to do and make the reader see things."
—Jim Burns

"Deftly connects the despoliation of our 'sweet blue planet', with the squandering of natural and human resources and our common fears of growing old."
—Morning Star