Tom Gorman 
B.T. Gorman was born in Hackney, London and has lived in a number of towns and cities across Southern England and Ireland. He currently lives in Portsmouth, Hampshire and works as Project Officer for Portsmouth City Council.
He is the author of three books, Underclass, Transition Island Songs and Seaside Boogie. Underclass is a quirky thriller which follows the events of two weeks in a run-down English seaside town.
Transition Island Songs is a collection of poems written by the author over the last twelve years and is a reflection upon a lifetime spent in ports and coastal towns.
Seaside Boogie is his latest critically acclaimed collection of love poems with an adult theme, comedic reflections on broken washing machines and other observational vignettes.
For two years he ran an experimental Open-mic night in Portsmouth called "Naked Beats" which combined spoken word with music in an avant-guarde, free-form style. He is currently working on the sequel to Underclass and a novel based on Irish myths and legends of the Tuatha DeDannan
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He became involved with the England Remembered project in 2014 and has written three poems for the project. One of the poems Normandy to Hampshire has been juxtaposed against Nowell Oxland’s Outward Bound.
“It was a real honour for me to see my poem paired with Oxland’s and as the project has developed and Jacky Dillon has uncovered more information about him, I have felt a growing connection to him and the other war poets. One of the most interesting connections for me is the one between Edward Thomas and the American poet Robert Frost. The road not taken is one of my favourite poems and I was amazed to discover that Edward Thomas was the inspiration for that poem.” Tom Gorman
"... As the lead from the maxim gun sang,
Cherry red blood splattered on his tunic
, A warm summer day like their last picnic..." Dorothy and David Tom Gorman
The novel Underclass is published by Roundfire and is available to purchase online.
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