“He’d sell anything – he put Disney to shame,” Mr Dommen said.Ī resident of Leighton Road, David “was a good, kind-hearted man. Mr Dommen helped type up and print the verses penned in David’s “not always legible” handwriting, adding: “He used to call most days, and we’d get them all typed up, and we printed books… he used to wait outside the Tube station selling books and poems.”ĭavid was a shrewd salesman, printing T-shirts emblazoned with lines of his verse. He wrote them for friends, people he knew, people he owed money to,” he said. There’s not many subjects he didn’t cover. In one poem, “Camden”, he celebrates the “borough of a varied life/ A street, a market lock… I wonder to explain/ How gifted people can be.”ĭavid was a familiar face to local business owners across Kentish Town, who were often willing to accept a poem as repayment for money he borrowed from them.Īccording to Grant Dommen, who runs Snappy Snaps in Kentish Town, David first came into his shop almost a decade ago. He immortalised local tradesmen and passers-by in his poetry, and paid homage to the NHS, Camden Lock and Hampstead Heath, among many other subjects. David Miles Thomas įOR many years, David Miles Thomas served as the resident poet of Kentish Town, capturing the everyday details of the area in the books of verse he sold outside the Tube station.ĭavid, who has died aged 56, was a kind-hearted and generous man with a good eye for detail and a boundless curiosity about the area in which he lived.
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