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James Garratt
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Sometime writer and poet who’s spent years documenting their life in writing pads. #writing #poet #poetry #writer #socialwork

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James Garratt @the-jfg.bsky.social · Dec 11
An introduction to, The Boy Behind The Glasses and my writing and poetry archive. #writing #writer #words #life #poem #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity
The Boy Behind The Glasses: An Introduction
My name is James and this personal website is an attempt to archive my writing which predominately is (under a loose banner) poetry I started writing things down at the age of 17 in 1992, initially…
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🎶 Out now: Seafront – Personal Commuter 🎶
Originally “released” on 3 March 1997, the band’s imagined second album reached #3 in the UK charts

👉 Listen on Bandcamp: seafrontband.bandcamp.com/album/person...

#Britpop #Seafront #AI
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Seafront – All Out: B-sides: All The Freaks, Toy Box (Single, 1995 / re-created 2025)
On Bandcamp seafrontband.bandcamp.com/.../all-out-....
#Seafront #AllOut #Britpop #90sIndie #IndieRock #UKIndie #GuitarPop #BritpopRevival #PostBritpop #LoFiIndie #AlternativeRock #IndieMusic #90sMusic
September 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Seafront – Toytown Blues (Single, 1995 / re-created 2025)

The second single from Hard Working Songs For Lazy People, released 12 June 1995, swaggered its way to #27

Backed with Trouble + Smile

🔗 Listen: seafrontband.bandcamp.com/album/seafro...

#Britpop #Seafront #ToytownBlues
🎶 Seafront – Toytown Blues (Single, 1995 / re-created 2025), by Seafront
3 track album
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September 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Seafront – Do You Remember? (Single, 1995 / re-created 2025)

Listen on @bandcamp.com here seafrontband.bandcamp.com/album/do-you...

Original poems: www.theboybehindtheglasses.com

#Seafront #DoYouRemember #Britpop #UKIndie #IndieRock #AlternativeRock #PoetryToMusic #AIRecreation #BritpopRevival
September 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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🌊 Seafront’s debut album Hard Working Songs For Lazy People (1995 / re-created 2025) is now live on Bandcamp.

13 tracks of Britpop energy, drawn from my poetry with AI-assisted production.

🎧 Listen here → seafrontband.bandcamp.com/album/hard-w...

#Britpop #IndieRock #Seafront #Poetry
Hard Working Songs For Lazy People (Album 1995 / re-created 2025), by Seafront
13 track album
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September 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The Highway of Life – Written December 1992 (Aged 17) #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #peom
The Highway of Life – Written December 1992 (Aged 17)
i was walking down the highway of life i did not know whether to turn left or right i know that one way was happiness and the other was desperation and plight
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March 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Whatever Happened to My Well Planned Life? – Written December 1992 (Aged 17) #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poem #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity
Whatever Happened to My Well Planned Life? – Written December 1992 (Aged 17)
whatever happened to the well planned life when i was young i was told everything would be alright
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March 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Life is a Play – Written December 1992 (Aged 17) #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet
Life is a Play – Written December 1992 (Aged 17)
all through the night i follow the light at the end of time – will it still shine bright?
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March 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Planet Thing – Written December 1992 (Aged 17) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #words #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet
Planet Thing – Written December 1992 (Aged 17)
i will take you home all alone you are the sweet body mover the heart stung emotion soother
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March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Many Parts, Many Lives – Written Monday 28th December 1992 (Aged 17) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem
Many Parts, Many Lives – Written Monday 28th December 1992 (Aged 17)
i felt adventurous – and travelled the seven seas to live life as i would and do as i please
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March 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Gipsy Boy Part 1 – Written Thursday 31st December 1992 (Aged 17) #writing #writingcommunity #words #writer #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity
Gipsy Boy Part 1 – Written Thursday 31st December 1992 (Aged 17)
gipsy boy, no home to call his own
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March 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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System Theory – Written Tuesday 17th December 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writer #wrods #writingcommunity #poem #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity
System Theory – Written Tuesday 17th December 2024 (Aged 49)
you can’t cheat a system, but… it can cheat you.
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March 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Salvage – Written December 2024 (Aged49) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poems #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity
Salvage – Written December 2024 (Aged49)
what dreams are there to salvage from times that have come and gone? after all, i am no longer young.
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March 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Disrupted – Written Thursday 11th April 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity
Disrupted – Written Thursday 11th April 2024 (Aged 49)
what are you hoping to achieve by stirring up hate why is nihilism, so tied to your fate
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March 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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What Shape Can I Be – Written Saturday 19th October 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writingcommunity #writer #words #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity
What Shape Can I Be – Written Saturday 19th October 2024 (Aged 49)
and this is not idle self-pity, it’s my self-pity going at full pelt, but ice cream turns to just deserts, and dreams quickly melt.
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March 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Falling Short – Written Friday 15th November 2024 (Aged 49)
i never seem to quite meet expectations. of course, i have come close, and sunlight has shone upon me.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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What We See – Written Thursday 14th November 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writingcommunity #words #writer #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #poet
What We See – Written Thursday 14th November 2024 (Aged 49)
What We Seethe world you see cannot be saved, barely new, barely made.i step back and shrug my shoulders; i let it all fall away.i am tired, and i cannot save these days. i should care more, and ma…
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February 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Opinions – Written Friday 1st November 2024 (Aged 49)
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Opinions – Written Friday 1st November 2024 (Aged 49)
maybe there is a chance that i don’t know. but i don’t know if people – really understand the words that they say.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Polluted Rivers – Written Tuesday 29th October 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poems #poetry
Polluted Rivers – Written Tuesday 29th October 2024
i am not sure – if the rivers are really that clean toxic cultures, are more like a steady stream
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February 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Rising Stars – Written October 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poems #poet #poetrycommunity #poetry
Rising Stars – Written October 2024 (Aged 49)
shooting stars, head towards the sky— then back down to the ground.
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February 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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What Shape Can I Be – Written Saturday 19th October 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writingcommunity #writer #poems #poet #poetrycommunity
What Shape Can I Be – Written Saturday 19th October 2024 (Aged 49)
and this is not idle self-pity, it’s my self-pity going at full pelt, but ice cream turns to just deserts, and dreams quickly melt.
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February 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Hideaway – Written Wednesday 16th October 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #words #poem #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity
Hideaway – Written Wednesday 16th October 2024 (Aged 49)
Hideaway to hide away,to hide such raw feelings,hiding themfrom the viewof triggering moments.give me a worldwhere the atmosphereis not so harsh,where these momentscome without a charge.to hide awa…
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February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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False Being – Written Tuesday 24th September 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writer #writingcommunity #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity
False Being – Written Tuesday 24th September 2024 (Aged 49)
actions hard to undertake. people – tied to self-destructive fates, greedy people embracing hate.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Trust – Written Tuesday 24th September 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writing #words #writingcommunity #poems #poet #poetrycommunity
Trust – Written Tuesday 24th September 2024 (Aged 49)
I am not your sleep devil hollows, Laced with poisonous fauna.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Uprising – Written Wednesdays 11th September 2024 (Aged 49) #writing #writingcommunity #words #writer #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poet
Uprising – Written Wednesdays 11th September 2024 (Aged 49)
Outrage – It never appears to wane. So I take myself away, And construct a different frame.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM