Poynter, M. J.

M. J. Poynter is an English "rogue writer" and underground poet. Born in Reading, Berkshire in the summer of 1969 he spent his early childhood in the neighbouring suburb of Woodley. In 1976 M. J. Poynter's family emigrated to South Africa and lived in the small coal mining town of Emalahleni (formerly known as Witbank) for next fifteen years. The author completed his primary and secondary school education in this conservative Afrikaans speaking town during what he often refers to as "the thirteen wasted years." It was during this time that he developed an insatiable dislike for the apartheid r...