He said that in 2020 he found a file of them in the attic and showed them to a poet friend.
“And he was really impressed and said, ‘We have got to do something with these’.
“So cut to quite recently and I started to write poems again. A lot of them about the same period in my life.”
On 27 September he will be reading his work for the first time, along with some of his favourite poems from his childhood, at Hereford Military History Festival.
“So I’m going to be close to Wales,” he said.
Larry said he surprised himself when he started writing in 1983.
“But now I have got a lot more experience, a lot more time in life,” he told Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales.