John Row (poet)

[4] He is the artistic director of the International Storytelling Festival that is celebrated every 2 years in Marrakech.

[5] The festival set a Guinness World Record with 120 hours of continuous non-stop storytelling in 2025.

With singer/songwriter Paddy Stratton he is one half of 'Serious Times', a touring music and poetry show.

Performing in the 1960s, he joined up with Graham Flight from the Canterbury band 'Wild Flowers', which spawned both 'Soft Machine' and 'Caravan'.

In the 1970s he toured with Nick Toczek in 'Stereo Graffiti' and in the 1980s and early 1990s with 'Sound Proposition' an anarchic combination of free form jazz, funk and poetry which toured East Germany in the last weeks of its existence.