Thanks for visiting my website. I’m a writer in different fields,

and here you can find links to songs, videos and books I’ve written.

I hope you can find some things of interest!

 

In addition to writing my own songs I’ve always been interested

in putting classic poems to music, I guess to try and give them

a bit more presence in the modern media world.

 

In particular the Romantic poets have always been a fascination,

and you can find song settings of their lyrics around the site,

as well as videos on their lives and times.

They act as introductions to, or reminders of those

great spirits who lived through

testing, challenging times like our own. 

 

And I’ve recently tried to cross their lives and work

with another great cultural force, The Beatles,

in my book The Closest Thing in History.

It tells their story and cross-references them with The Beatles,

showing, in the end,that the Romantics’ high-octane views on

the centrality of poetry and the imagination to human life are still valid.

In the 1970s I travelled overland to India and back, and recently

told the story as a narrative poem – a format that worked well as

scenes and situations could be portrayed vividly and concisely.

It tells of a first encounter with Asian cultures, and even though

those times have long gone, I hope still captures some

essential aspects of those worlds.

 

Now my new book ‘The Rough, the Smooth and the Quirky’continues

that seam of poetry with poems drawn from difficult, delightful

and off-beat subjects and themes – aiming at clarity,

looking for ways forward, hopefully raising a few laughs along the way.

  

 

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