After a prolonged spell of distraction, I have begun to ‘ship’ new material. My first booklet since 2010 is released today. It’s a 48 page booklet of poems. You can download a free PDF of it by clicking here. Enjoy…
I posted a couple of days ago the link to the ‘November Suite’ booklet. Here’s a poem from that collection in case you’re wondering whether to go ahead and download. Before The dark is rising Now hear all of this Last night the stars shone And I watched them twinkle One drop in each shard … Read more
Ages ago on this blog, I promised to upload the collection of poetry which I wrote in November 2009. It was written through the month – a poem a day. Follow this link to download the booklet. I hope you enjoy it – as ever, I am always keen to get feedback (use the contacts … Read more
Here’s a poem from ‘Spirit Soul: Pursuance’ to give you some idea of the contents of the latest book. If you like it, go take a look. The link is here, and on the ‘Free Stuff’ page of the site. then one morning eyes slightly out of focus I was taken by surprise there in the … Read more
On Sunday I settled down late morning to write a poem. It’s approaching the anniversary of my father’s death and I wanted to do something that would help with this. I was also keen to build on something I had already written. I took a poem from a collection of poems back in 1998 called … Read more
…. in case you need just a little more tempting to follow the link, here is a short poem from ‘Scrapes against the Soul’: Pictures on the wall were all taken with this new camera Living in a world where every second can be captured as a Perfect digital image. Still or moving images Everything … Read more
If you follow the link to the ‘free stuff‘ page, you will be now be able to download a free PDF booklet of ‘Scrapes against the Soul’, a booklet of poems which I produced last year. Coming soon – ‘November Suite’ – a booklet produced (not surprisingly) last November.
I’m in the middle of an exercise to write a poem a day for November – the resulting collection, once edited, will be called ‘November Suite’. I am using various exercises to generate material. For example, I take the last line of the previous poem and google that phrase. Then I follow the links and … Read more
I said in mid-September that I had nearly completed the latest poetry manuscript, ‘Scrapes against the Soul’. Well, I have been stuck on the last poem for a few weeks now. It is a long piece which captures my experiences of Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s. I’m hoping to have it finished … Read more
The latest collection of poetry is nearly completed. I am in the middle of the final poem which is an extended piece called ‘seventy nine to eighty two’. Here’s a verse from it: Watching bands at Eric’s – seeing Simple Minds Keyboard player with his head between the beams Music bouncing off walls, everyone saying … Read more