Canadian-born Robert Powell is an acclaimed poet, performer and writer. He is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is working on a new novel, is married to Dianne. They have two sons and live in York.
What’s your first Yorkshire memory? Taking the train from Manchester to Hebden Bridge with my friend, the photographer Martin Parr, in the mid-1970s. We became friends at Manchester Polytechnic. I also discovered Scarborough and Whitby with Martin and remember hearing the band play at the Spa in Scarborough. It felt as if I was listening to and watching the twilight of the British, it was so stuck in time. What’s your favourite part of the county? It is constantly changing.
If you could own, or have access to, one thing in Yorkshire for a single day, what would that object or place be? The RAF early-warning station at Fylingdales – to observe the increasing amount of space junk circling above our heads. It would be somewhere completely different to take me out of my Taurean earth-bound comfort zone – so that single day would be quite enough, thank you.
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