Three Tall Tales

The ‘Three Tall Tales’ in this book comprise one short story and two ‘story poems’.

The story, ‘The Thing with Harry’, is an interior monologue in which the character recollects his first youthful love affair. It is a self-pitying tragicomedy.

The poem, ‘The Artists Who Burned a Million Quid’ tells the story of the two artists who burned £1,000,000-worth of £50 notes on the Scottish island of Jura in 1994.

‘Two Versions’ tells, in two ways, the story of the writer’s encounter with a traumatised ex-soldier.

Author Biography

Anthony White is a spoken-word poet. Born in London in 1954, for most of his working life he was a nurse. Now retired, he lives in Folkestone (Kent, UK), where he writes and performs his work, mostly with Poets’ Corner Folkestone, of which he is a founding member. He has also performed solo shows at Faversham Fringe Festival. His first collection, Miserable Love Poetry and Other Poems, was published in 2022, followed by The Deathbed Poet and Other Poems in 2023.