Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of Stephen’s death in a car crash <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was killed along with the driver of a London taxi <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the evening of the 17th September 1973<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Castle Road Ealing West London <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reports indicate that the driver lost control at high speed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to a mechanical failure that caused his vehicle to crash into a brick wall <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen died immediately of a severe head trauma <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the driver Tony Nash died later that evening <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world of poetry was shaken to the core by Stephen’s untimely death <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had only just turned nineteen and in his short life had published two books <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Chrysalis Amongst the Waves in 1971 and Perfect Form in 1973 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both books were well received and Stephen was predicted to have a bright future <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A posthumous collection of poems Festival was published in 1975 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Followed by Paint in 1980 and The Lighthouse in 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was trusted by his family to be the guardian of his unpublished poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And to release them as I saw fit mainly to be published in literary journals <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This I have done with a great pleasure for the last thirty-three years <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My family and friends met last night and we toasted Stephen’s life <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I later announced that I would be releasing four more unpublished poems<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the Searchlight magazine for publication in their January 2024 edition <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen Masefield 29th August 1954 – 17th September 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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