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James Buxton

Poet, James Buxton aka The Illegible Bachelor was born in London on 22 March 1986. He has an MA in Poetry from UEA and self-published his first collection of poems, 22, in 2008. His work encompasses a wide range of styles, from dramatic verse in the vernacular, to poems that parody language and rhetoric, to compositions that seek to record the precise feel of things as they pass.