about the author

John Eaton is a care home owner and manager who has worked in the public sector before leaving to create a service for people with mental health/learning disabilities. He has written many training programmes for the care sector workers and has had a book published on a step-by-step guide to investors in people. Much of the punishment, pathos and proclamations comes from his day job, with a sprinkling of other thoughts as he wanders through the panoply of his life.

about the book

There are different ways of telling life stories; this book is about my stories in verse with truth and honesty and also with humour and pathos. So much is true to human behaviour, whether it is the cones on the road or thoughts about people’s inability to see their own shortcomings. There is a part of me that finds something humorous in a word or a sentence which leads to a story with a twist, such as in a sentence in the first verse which includes the words ‘blubbaldy-blobaldy-flibadyflob, flibbady-flobbady-boo’, sometimes following a word with another similar word and letting them follow each other until I find an end. Finding words and meaning has been therapeutic tool for me in a time when I needed to say something, even if that something was nothing. PROETRYIt may not be what you expect, a word that is never used,a neologism,with the help of a little entrepreneurialism,must gain respect, as I suppose,what I write is not prose,but it rhymes and chimes like Moet,though I do not consider myself a poet,so with pure probity,I call this work,‘Proetry’.

Videos

news

A FUN RHYME FROM MY BOOK

I’m delighted to share a video of fun and melodious poem from my book, Thoughts From A Faraway Place. Enjoy the poem![vid]

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TRAINING AWARD 2020-2021

It has been a busy and amazing year for John. As a manager of a Supported Living Unit, he has had to manage the difficulties of COVID and the effects within his organisation. At the same time his tr ........

DRINK VS BUN

I present to you an animated rendition of the Liquor and the Bun, it’s funny story but with a serious message.[vid]

blogs

VIDEO SECTION

I have made up a singalong from the poem Cleverley Evaleigh the first poem, in the book Lullaby for EvaleighWibble-wobble, wibble-wobble, wibbly-wobbly-woo,this is Evaleigh’s poem,written just for yo ........

ORIGINS OF THOUGHTS FROM A FARAWAY PLACE

‘Thoughts from a Faraway Place began its life as an accident. Six years ago, J started a Newsletter for clients and families of Meadow Court, a Supported Living unit I manage for people with mental ........

HASHTAG POETRY

Hi readers, I thought I would start my blog with a poem about hashtags that are used to find works such as mine.HASHTAG POETRY#poetry is love ,#quotes from above,#poetrycommunity in a glove,#writerso ........

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