Comments on: Derrick Porter, Poet Of Hoxton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:23:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Derrick Porter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1382403 Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:23:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1382403 To the Gentle Author to whom I owe so much more than I can ever repay. Do forgive my silence.
I have long believed it can be a better form of showing one`s appreciation than revealing what doesn`t have to be be repeatedly said. I still manage to get my poems published by magazines and continue to work alongside a talented group of poets who belong to the same workshop run by the poet Mimi Khavati. I hope you remain in good health and continue with your journalistic work which has been a blessing for so many and especially so for the East End.

Regards always

Derrick Porter or as you once referred to me: the poet of Hoxton

]]> By: Tyra https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1143993 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:16:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1143993 My inspirational granddad. What beautiful, emotive poems you write.
Discovering this page, has reminded me how very respectful of you that I am.
I know you’ll become famous, obviously, because you have me as your granddaughter 😉
Love you, keep making us grandkids (and your whole family) proud.

]]> By: David Gray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1138594 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:44:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1138594 I love your poems as much as I loved our morning chats over tea and toast back in Orpington
I was pretty low in the water back then, you helped give me the confidence and self belief to rise above feelings of failure and heartache. I still have that letter you wrote me. All power to you Derrick you are one of a kind.

]]> By: Danny bodle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1128399 Sat, 07 Jan 2017 22:12:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1128399 Derrick you are an inspiration and a special man also my dear uncle x

]]> By: Sonia Jarema https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1081370 Sat, 05 Mar 2016 11:21:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1081370 What a lovely post! Love your poems Derrick Porter – you are a diamond in the poetry world. xx

]]> By: Gordon Porter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1050545 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:46:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1050545 May you prosper dear brother as I know how much this all means to you.

]]> By: Andrew Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-1049229 Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:25:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-1049229 good to bump into you on the virtual street as I start to walk out myself. Well done old friend, dear mentor and literary strongman. I always think of you lifting the words, feeling their weights, readying your voice and releasing its compounds of cockney gravitas and jazzily reflected light, discovering your own language amongst our wreckage … Hope to compare notes soon, Andrew Taylor (Borrie)

]]> By: Terry maher https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-992635 Sat, 01 Aug 2015 19:27:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-992635 My lovely uncle Derrick… very proud of you x

]]> By: Carrie Kitkat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-992627 Sat, 01 Aug 2015 18:51:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-992627 Oh, how I wish this post
will reach out its tree like branches
to kindly holder of battered bag
which stayed in Vegas

]]> By: Roy Wild https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/26/derrick-porter-poet-of-hoxton/#comment-992223 Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:50:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136530#comment-992223 I am proud to have such a talented life long friend!!

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