Roger Taber

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Poetry Reading, 21 March 2017
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I will be reading a selection of my poems at The Society of Genealogists, 14, Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M  7BM. (Nearest Tube: Barbican or Old Street.6:45 pm - 8:45 pm (15 min break)

In 2017, I will have been getting my poetry into print for 60 years; my first poem appeared in my school magazine at the ripe old age of 11 years. (I will be 71, December 21 2016.) I will also have been living with prostate cancer for six years since being diagnosed in February 2011. 

Many men will not get checked out for prostate cancer (at 55+) because they are scared. I was scared, too, but the cancer was caught early and is being treated with hormone therapy. My team at the UCH MacMillan Cancer Centre (London WC1) ) are wonderful; so much so that I am still taking my cue from Monty Python and looking on the bright side of life. Apart from hoping to encourage donations to Prostate Cancer UK, I also hope to raise awareness of the condition and encourage men to discuss it with their GP.

I regularly post new and historical poems that link to my general and gay-interest poetry blogs on Google Plus; almost daily, removing poems as I add them so there are never more than 30 poems. (Yes, I am gay. Prostate cancer does not care if a man is gay or straight just as a poem is a poem is a poem regardless of the poet's gender or sexual persuasion.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._N._Taber

NB. Please address any enquiries about the reading or its location to me please: rogertab@aol.com (i.e. Not the Society of Genealogists.)



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PROSTATE CANCER UK

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Prostate Cancer UK has a simple ambition - to stop men dying from prostate cancer. Through shifting the science over the next 10 years to focus on radical improvements in diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and support, we will stop prostate cancer being a killer.

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