From down to earth tales of life in the entertainment business
and stealing toilet chains from the Coronation street set, to meetings with the ghosts of famous singers,
conversations with disembodied entities and astounding interactions with crop circles and ancient sites,
Paul's life story will resonate on many different levels in the hearts of those who join him for this
remarkable journey.
BOOK NOTES
Paul Bura has a considerable reputation as a performer of his own work. He has a fine, rich voice which has been compared to Dylan Thomas, and a stage presence that can move an audience to tears and to laughter. It was the late Christy Brown, author of MY LEFT FOOT, who said after hearing Bura read some of his work: “Your voice played upon the verses like a well tuned instrument, teasing out meanings and nuances that had of course escaped me, who’s merely the author after all."
Paul Bura is no stranger to the media. He provided ‘voice-overs’ for countless radio and TV commercials and documentaries. He was co-presenter on the BBC Radio.4. program WORDS SOUNDS AND MOVEMENT, and has also reported for Channel Four’s SAME DIFFERENCE – a far cry from his early days doing many of the voices for the Thames TV children’s program LARRY THE LAMB. He insists that he never did the voice of Larry – “It was much too high, we had a girl doing Larry’s voice!”
“Paul Bura is a straight down-the-line poet. He is sensitive and emotional, a journalistic poet with a good sense of imagery.”
SPIKE MILLIGAN.
“I laughed out loud in my mid-night room at some of his tough, witty descriptions of childhood, smiled sadly at his love encounters, and groaned when he struck a certain all too responsive chord within myself. He has a voice that would make Dylan Thomas growl in his grave with envy.”
CHRISTY BROWN.
“This geezer says it the way it was.”
IAN DURY, speaking about the poem CHAILEY HERITAGE,
a school that both attended.
"The Drunk On The Train is priceless; a jewel amongst contemporary poetry."
Stephanie Sorrell
(editor of The Science of Thought Review)
