John Metson
John Metson has studied English and Latin literature, specializing in the English Medieval and Romantic periods, and has a Ph.D. on the poetry of Percy Shelley. He has also trained and worked as a landscape architect. At other times he has been a teacher, copy-editor, and a humanist funeral celebrant.
In the early 1980s he was as a teacher in a school in Jerusalem and then at West Bank universities (visiting Gaza in 1982). Since then he has maintained a close interest in Palestine, returning there on various occasions, and observing with dismay the deteriorating situation for Palestinians. He has long been a member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom and is active in the branch of his home city of Durham, where he now lives. Activism for Palestine takes up much of his time in retirement, along with other pastimes such as reading, beekeeping, and painting.
