Raised by Marxist revolutionaries in the badlands of south London, resentfully educated as a scholarship boy in a seedy public school. Graduating from builders’ labourer to pioneer backstreet cannabis entrepreneur, gate crashing the antiques game, ascending to the chandeliered halls of London’s finest antique fairs. An odyssey from the meanest of streets to the squares and crescents of bourgeois Bath.

Geoffrey Breeze has more insights, quotes and enquiries than Wikipedia. His poems swagger across seven decades, through the decline of empire and industrialisation, confronting crime, pop culture, computers and culture clashes then sharing heartbreakingly tender love poems and a direct face off with mortality.

Dropping the jaws of Gen Z, engaging academics and beguiling middle England, his compelling delivery and powerful stage presence sell out every performance .

Poetry? He’ll give you poetry!