One Foot Forward

by Andrew Maxwell, Anne Tipler

A young boy's true experience, of the evacuation from the city of Glasgow at the outbreak of the second world war, and how it affected him for the rest of his life.

108 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 27, 2020

About the author

Andrew Maxwell is the author of PEEPING MOT (Apogee Press, 2013), CANDOR IS THE BRIGHTEST SHIELD (UDP, 2015), and CONVERSION TABLE (Mindmade, 2017). He is interested in meta-literature and compressed forms. For the last two decades, he has worked in the fields of taxonomy, audience and identity as manager of classification and machine learning initiatives at Applied Semantics, Google and Snapchat in Los Angeles, where he is also a radio DJ and co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau, a valise fiction and project space in the arts district of Chinatown. From 1997-2005, he published a journal of poetry and translation, THE GERM, with MacGregor Card. Maxwell has released several small collections of poems, lists and epigrammatic writing on the PRB imprint—portable, artisanal items meant to pass hand to hand in limited quantity. He typically underwrites his small collections with the simple initial A, as impediment to indexability, and in tribute to other minor/maker poets like David Schubert and Wallace Berman.

Reviews

[Charles R Wilson-Teresa Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Honest Insight into Poverty and Determination.

As I've reviewed a great many books I've very seldom given 5 *.
This not a move but rather a set of diary entries of important milestones in a young person's life.
I don't get the impression it was ever written as a work to be published and the honest, heartbreaking moments when a child realises the important adults in his life are not trustworthy.
Despite an increasingly difficult time and upbringing during WW2 there are some wonderful childhood memories, which I was so pleased the author had.
Despite a life-changing injury, he strove to do his best and not repeat the cycle of alcohol and poverty.
I liked that although other events took place these are alluded to and not dwelt on.
Andrew it would have been a pleasure to meet a gentleman such as yourself, plus I hope you're happy roaming the hills watching your family as I'm sure you are.