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Darren Hobson

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in Preston, The United Kingdom

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https://darrenhobsonpoet.wordpress.com/poetry/

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Poetry, Horror, Humor and Comedy

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A native of Preston, Lancashire, England, Darren Hobson's life has taken an international journey. In 1998, he moved to the area near Rome, Italy, where he resided and worked for a multinational company. His global experiences continue with his recent relocation to Turkey in 2025. This blend of English roots, Italian life, and now Turkish culture infuses his poetry with a distinctive flavor. Darren finds inspiration in the contrasting beauty and history of specific regions: Calabria, Italy, Yorkshire, England, and now the diverse landscapes of Turkey. These rich settings provide the backdrop for his intense and often evocative verse. Darren's journey as a poet began with submissions to various anthologies between 1990 and 2009. In 2014, he ...more

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	Nothing In This World Is Free, Just Poetry! 3.24 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just For Free 3.30 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smile: You Nutter! 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death Of Poetry Will Be The Death Of Me 2.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	12 Volts Of Eccentricity 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just For Christmas 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just These Four Walls 2.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Seams 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hello to my devoted readers, and thank you for sticking with me.

If you’ve read my work before, you know that chaos is my natural habitat. But since I wrote my last eBook, everything has changed for the better. My life is now rooted in Türkiye, offering a new sense of focus and stability. I am watching the world from a new perch—and it has profoundly influenced my writing.

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Darren Hobson said: " This book is the cherry on the cake, all my writings over the last 12 months lead here, these are the poems that need to be read, there are stories to be told and I the other have written them down in Poetry form.
The dancing cats make their appearanc ...more "

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Darren Hobson added a status update: good morning , I have update my goodsreads back catalogue with the correct ebook covers and descriptions, I have also self published a new poetry collection full of wacky and surreal humour, Just as stunning as my last poetry collection. No I don't take myself seriously I am having fun with art.
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 4: by Kira

Apr 25, 2016 10:09AM

Hey there Darren! Thank you for the friend request - I recognize you from Twitter and it's nice to see a familiar face :)

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message 3: by Nathaniel

Jun 06, 2015 09:23PM

Hey, my first novel THE LAST HERO is free Sunday, June 7. Link to Kindle page http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NI5UGPI

Hope you can check it out. thanks

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message 2: by Darren

May 12, 2015 04:41AM

Carole wrote: "hi, thanks for the add."
thank you!

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