Poetry for the working class and Berkoff inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Actor, writer, director and sometime Clive Conway Productions speaker Steven Berkoff's latest book, Poems for the Working Class, has just been published and it’s written from an intriguing perspective.
For Berkoff was born in the tough East End of London on the brink of World War II. He went on to study mime and drama in London and Paris before pursuing a career in theatre and forming the groundbreaking London Theatre Group in 1968.
From solidly working class environment to the new supposedly  ‘classless’ society that developed in the late 20th century.
“When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.”  says Berkoff somewhat tantalisingly
Want to find out more? Well, every copy ordered direct from his own site comes with a free copy of his 2017 DVD My Tell Tale Heart.
The 2017 piece is written and directed by Stephen Cookson and stars Berkoff alongside Hugh Skinner and another sometime CCP speaker Henry Goodman. It is based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story and finds an unnamed servant setting out to convince viewers of his sanity.
Telling the story of the meticulously calculated murder of his employer, he describes carefully dismembering and hiding the body under the floorboards, The storyteller is so convinced that he can still hear the victim’s beating heart, that he is driven to confess to the killing. Find out more on the Steven Berkoff Facebook page.
Creatively for Berkoff this is the latest chapter in an extraordinary life  that has produced performances, books, plays and films and photography. Alongside his original work there have been adaptations of plays by everyone from Shakespeare and Kafka to Oscar Wilde. Berkoff has also appeared as an actor in many films from A Clockwork orange and The Krays to Octopussy and Beverley Hills Cop. Further info at stevenberkoff.com