Phil MaillardPhil Maillard was born in 1948, and grew up in South London. He completed a carpentry apprenticeship with the old Greater London Council in the early 1970's; he still messes about with houses. He moved to South Wales in 1975. For the last 20 years hes worked as a Speech and Language Therapist for the NHS, specialising in progressive neurological conditions.Education, jobs, places-is that who we are? Maybe . . ."Allen Fisher in London, and John Freeman in Cardiff, published my first 2 books in the mid-1970s. Peter Hodgkiss did 3 more. Since 1980, apart from a couple of chapbooks and a paperback of short fiction, I've published in magazines and anthologies. Very little of the writing in this Shearsman selection, therefore, has appeared in book form before." Read More Read Less