Meet the 'busking poet' who writes on demand

Joel Wilson is a University of York law student who now calls himself the "busking poet".

The 20-year-old, from Darlington, sets up with his typewriter in the doorway of a disused shop in York's King's Square and writes impromptu poems for anyone who wants one.

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