Writing for the page in his own preferred style of poetic story-telling verse, Timothy Grayson is a poet, playwright and international representative for the English Poetry Brothel. He is a member of the Decadent Romantics with Steven Silverman and Nathan Lunt, and has worked alongside various professional organisations such as the BBC, Royal Society of Literature, Metro Newspaper, FD2D Magazine and Leicester Comedy Festival.
"In a world of performance artists and pretentious clichés, very few poets seem interested in the craft of writing anymore. They create rhyming comedies to bemuse the audiences, or blindly stagger sentences into stanzas, throw in a line of 'meaning' and call them poems. This angers me as this has become what the public call the 'poetry' of today. The global movement of the Poetry Brothel challenges these perceptions, (it's primarily focused on prostituting quality work) but the perceptions will remain unless we, the poets, write with literary talent and conviction about what's worth writing about and always remember to perfect each piece.
I felt as though Peter Dickinson spoke directly to me when I read the following:
"Perfection, there is no such stuff.
But good enough is not good enough."
"How very true; this philosophy should sum up a poet's work ethic entirely. As for the "languid lyricists", they may buy the latest award-winning collections from X and Y, revel in their modernity and wish they could write like that, but if the true poets continue honing their art through literary experimentation and paying homage to the classics, the flame of poetry, true poetry, will be rekindled. We are living in the Brothellian age, my friends, 'tis time they realised it."
He lives in Leicester City with his fiancée, Caroline Tweedy, who is also a writer. When he's not writing, he's learning no-gi grappling under Nathan Leverton at Leicester MMA Academy.