Around the World in 80 Poems

About the Book

Whether you have the wanderlust or you’re wander ’lost’, have the travel bug or are just travel sick, whether you’re on top of the world or feel six feet under, this book is for you!

About the Author

I, Graham Relton, the author, now I like the sound of that. My strict English teacher at Secondary School was the trigger in my life…to turn my back on the literary world. In fact it took me almost five years to read a book for pleasure rather than necessity. And it took me a further seven years or so until I penned my first poem as an adult. A few Valentine’s, Christmas and birthday poems later for family and friends and the habit stuck. It started out for fun and this is how it remains. During 2005 and 2006 I had a few poems published in compilation books and in March 2006 I stepped off the career ladder with my then girlfriend and now wife to circumnavigate the globe. I started writing poems in the first week of the trip in a hostel in the heart of Mexico City for pleasure and as a way of documenting the once in a lifetime adventure we had embarked on. I carried on writing up until the last leg of our epic journey on the Trans-Siberian Express across China and Mongolia to Russia. Echoing fellow Yorkshire man Ian McMillan and with a touch of Purple Ronnie thrown in my poetry is mainly tongue-in-cheek, however read between the lines and some serious issues are addressed. Around the World in 80 Poems is my first book and I hope it inspires, amuses and questions you the reader, giving you rhyming reasons to travel the globe…or not!

10% of the author’s profits will be donated to environmental charities.