John Tweedy

John Tweedy was born in London, lived three weeks of his life there and then moved out to the suburbs and grew up in Surrey. Bought up in a one parent family by a dad who gave all for his three children, he sought solace and peace outside from an early age, as well as the freedom. Shy and vulnerable in his teens he found that his ‘daydreams’ tasted sweeter than real life and he got lost, and fell deeply. Within the grips of a terrifying drug addiction, he wrote desperate and desolate rhymes. Finally, at the age of 38 he found recovery through the love and care of others that bought fresh light, creativity, and imagination into his feelings which then became his words and his actions. He found study again and went to university after living in France for 18 months and through the guidance of something ‘greater than himself’ created a different life, reaching out to others in need through his counselling he was drawn into writing A Soul called River. This was inspired by a person who came into his life at that time and the book was written in three months. It helped him, alongside his previously published poems, to find light in places where shadows lived before. He has run the London Marathon for Action on Addiction, spent summers in the Himalayas and hopes that a peaceful and quiet life surrounded by those who show him how to live, may continue. As is his hope for all those across the blue marble we all live on…

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