John Phoenix Hutchinson

John Phoenix Hutchinson born Croydon 12-01-68 is a English Lakeland poet known for his poetical guide to the 214 listed Wainwright mountains in Cumbria. Wainwrights In Verse is a book based on the famous Alfred Wainwright walking guides, only in John's book each mountain is treated individually as a poem.
John has been on local radio several times reciting his poems including BBC Radio Cumbria. On November 25th he recited his poem Grasmoor on the BBC Mark Forrest Show that went out nationally to 33 local BBC Radio stations.
Recorded segment of show.
John lives and works in Eskdale Cumbria at the Woolpack Inn and he posts his weekly adventures up the fells on line on the Social media website Facebook in the form of photos and video.
John is a keen conservator in Cumbria and often volunteers for various projects including those arranged by the Friends Of The Lake District.Fell Care Days
John also tries to raise funds from the sale of his book for the National Trust Fix the Fells Charity.Fix the Fells News
Carrock Fell Poem by John Phoenix Hutchinson.
Turn back the tides of time to ancient man, imagine,
Imagine the laborious effort, toil and the sweat,
To raise the circled walls, the rocky ramparts,
For tribal defence in the cold and the wet.
Envisage fortifications now foundered succumbed to ages,
Standing firm against wind and hand of man,
A last strong defence an enduring refuge,
And sheltered home in wild and savage land.
Who lays silent under raised earth?
Long dead fallen warrior? Valiant King?
Honoured leader of mountain country,
Did he fight the good fight? Lose or Win?
Some of John's poem listed in the Norman Nicholson section on western Lakes.Norman Nicholson Entry

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