2011

The last year in Hampshire

I have been a troubled soul most of my life although I have learned to be at peace with much of the troubles – a sort of Belfast Of The Mind in which the old conflicts remain raw in the imagination, but there is no real appetite for returning to the death ground.

Jackie Leven, Blog, September 2011

In his last years Leven lived in a village in Hampshire, got up at half past six and walked three miles to muck out two horses. His last entries are about the market hall clock, an orchard, the terriers in the tidal creek, and the jazz the old men play in the pub across the road.