Picture: Vaughn Reeves

Dave Reeves has been a well-known poet/ performer around the West Midlands for many years. Formerly the editor of Raw Edge magazine and now presenter of Radio Wildfire’s live literature show his poetry has been widely published and appreciated. Not bad going for a Netherton lad.

Furthermore, other examples of his writing can be seen in the glazing of West Bromwich bus station and in the Ballads for Bomere Heath. He also he edited the Brummies All Write series of books throughout the 1990s, and as a freelance public historian has produced the newly released digital exhibition and oral history of St Matthew’s and St Margaret’s Hospitals in Walsall Grounds for Improvement.

Dave Reeves can be contacted at www.radiowildfire.com.