RJ began to write poetry at the early age of ten, but he was thirteen before this interest attained any serious involvement. By the time he graduated from school with ninety five percent honours in both English Language and Literature, he had formulated a distinctive style, evident in the numerous poems scrawled over the back pages of his notebooks. This passionate avocational activity subsisted throughout his university years and the poems now filled up entire notebooks. They covered a vast and diverse range of subjects, themes, emotions and when he graduated, numbered over two hundred. A selection of his poems from those written during his teenage years were published in a book and reveal the maturity attained as he gained in age and insight.

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RJ began to write poetry at the early age of ten, but he was thirteen before this interest attained any serious involvement. By the time he graduated from school with ninety five percent honours in both English Language and Literature, he had formulated a distinctive style, evident in the numerous poems scrawled over the back pages of his notebooks. This passionate avocational activity subsisted throughout his university years and the poems now filled up entire notebooks. They covered a vast and diverse range of subjects, themes, emotions and when he graduated, numbered over two hundred. A selection of his poems from those written during his teenage years were published in a book and reveal the maturity attained as he gained in age and insight.

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RJ began to write poetry at the early age of ten, but he was thirteen before this interest attained any serious involvement. By the time he graduated from school with ninety five percent honours in both English Language and Literature, he had formulated a distinctive style, evident in the numerous poems scrawled over the back pages of his notebooks. This passionate avocational activity subsisted throughout his university years and the poems now filled up entire notebooks. They covered a vast and diverse range of subjects, themes, emotions and when he graduated, numbered over two hundred. A selection of his poems from those written during his teenage years were published in a book and reveal the maturity attained as he gained in age and insight.

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