BLESSING: Aspiration from the slums

by Tom Leonard (Illustrator)

JOHNNY WELSBY'S PROGRESS THROUGHOUT FOUR DECADES. CHASING AMBITION FROM THE SLUMS OF ST HELENS AND HOW THAT AMBITION CHANGED HIS LIFE

Kindle Edition

Published October 21, 2015

About the author

Tom Leonard (born 1944) was a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He is best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.

Leonard also wrote plays, sound poetry, political polemic and a biography of the 19th-century Scottish poet James ‘B.V.’ Thomson, Places of the Mind.