News at Eleven: But sobriety for a man whose life was an X-rated

boy's own novel came at price--boredom.

"I woke up one day and I thought as well as running companies I'm really bored. I thought, what am I going to do? So I started planting trees and writing poetry. It's my new addiction."

In an unlikely turn of events [Felix] Dennis, who has published more than 200 magazines and famously made the office hamster editor-in-chief of US Maxim, has reinvented himself as a best-selling author and poet.

from WalesOnline: The life and colourful times of publisher turned poet Felix Dennis

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