Psychedelic Meadow

Growing up in Jersey in the seventies, before I left to do American Studies at Essex University, wasn't easy as an anomalous poet living in a largely pedestrian, materialistic society. My escape came by way of finding part-­time employment with John Berger, part of the Berger Paints family, who patented Prussian Blue, the first modern synthetic pigment. John Berger, a wealthy, reclusive aesthete and compulsive bibliophile and antiques hoarder, kept his mother mummified in the living room of...