From Deseret News archives:
'An astonishing life' Poet Leslie Norris
A national treasure in Wales, is retired but still writes at Orem home
He doesn't entirely understand the process himself; all he knows is that what he ruminates and observes while walking the people he meets along the way, the river, the sunrise, the birds are where the poetry begins. He needs walking the way a carpenter needs a hammer and wood, but the walks are growing shorter.
"It's terribly hard," his wife Kitty observes.
"So frustrating. He thinks best when his legs are moving. He believes to have an idea, it's got to come from something tangible, something he is a part of, something he sees."
He has published some two dozen books of poetry, short stories and children's books. He has won honorary degrees. He was a candidate for poet laureate of England, which eventually went to Ted Hughes, the former husband of the late poet Sylvia Plath. He is the subject of at least two books and one video. He has done readings at some of the great festivals in the world and once served as poet in residence at Eton College. He has done almost everything in the literary world from teaching poetry at every level of school to doing a poetry reading in front of thousands in Westminster Abbey upon the presentation of Dylan Thomas' memorial stone in Poets' Corner.
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