BACK TO THE BORDERLANDS

Poet Chris Towers, author of Hinterlands, takes a trip to the Crabble Athletic ground to watch Dover Athletic take on FA Cup giant-killers Maidstone United...
ONE doesn’t always hear classical guitar playing from a speaker under a bench in a town square.
Many of the shops were boarded up but the music brightened things in an unexpected way.
But that is what I observed and heard as I tucked into scrambled egg, salmon, and bacon in a cafe in the middle of Dover in early March. Why was I there? To see a National League South match and to write a poem and a report for my second book ‘Hinterlands...

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