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'A joyful thing': the man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years

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Actor Peter Gordon wrote verse for his wife Alison for two decades, and has continued since she died. Now 87, his family has set up a website, A Love in Verse, to share his poetry

Thirty years ago, “just for a laugh”, actor Peter Gordon wrote a poem for his wife Alison, and left it under her pillow. She liked it, and so he carried on, every day for 25 years. To this day, Gordon continues to add to the thousands of poems he had written for Alison, even after her death four years ago.

“She was quite amused by it, both charmed and flattered, as I had hoped, and I went on from there to turning it into little rhymes and then the rhymes got bigger and bigger and I started doing it every day. So it became a custom,” says Gordon, now 87, from lockdown at his home in Sunbury, where he lives with one of his daughters. “I was out of work sometimes, or hanging about in the dressing room, so it was something for me to do, and something I felt I wished to express quite deeply.”

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