Raymond Hunt was born in the mining village of Stairfoot, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. At seven years of age the family moved to Dudley in the West Midlands. His first job when leaving school was as a print room junior draughtsman. He joined the RAF in 1944, was posted overseas to India in 1945 and was demobbed in 1948.
Raymond married his late wife Jean in 1950. He retired at the age of 64, having worked as a mechanical/structural engineering designer. After retirement, he and his wife toured the five continents: South and North America, Asia (including China), Africa and Europe.
‘I have read individual poems to a number of people who say they have enjoyed them – I am sure you will too! Some are romantic, some funny; there are also poems of the present and the past.‘I hope the illustrations that accompany some of the poems help to deepen what the poem is trying to conv...
This second volume of Raymond Hunt’s Heterogeneous Poems gives us poetic postcards celebrating the many parts of the world he has visited over the decades, from the Andes mountains of South America to the Great Wall of China, alongside evocative snapshots of Raymond’s beloved English countryside...
The ‘emoji’ in question, in case you were wondering, is Jenny Taylor’s involuntary wink, which has landed her in all sorts of scrapes over the years. Together with her farmer parents Jim and Gladys and her siblings Doris, Tom and Fred, Jenny has many adventures in the sleepy Worcestershire tow...
