The author, on finishing college, followed in his chosen career to become a design draughtsman in the field of engineering. Having worked for some major companies, he became a chief draughtsman. Unfortunately, after a bad accident he had to take early retirement.
Having a love for poetry, he started writing it himself, to touch the mind and heart.
John Butler-Hopkins’ For the Love of Poetry opens, appropriately enough, with a sequence of poems about romantic love in all its aspects: the dizzying ecstasies of infatuation and first love, then the brutal lessons of rejection and betrayal, and finally the discovery of a soul mate and the develo...
