Busy Writing

Since The Dark Trilogy was published back in September 2022, I have been busy abd I now have five titles to my name!

The most recent is a collection of poems - Lost Time - which brings together poems written during the last two to three years. There are poems that relate to Place, the Sea (always a strong theme for me, as readers of The Dark Trilogy will know), Writing, Memories and Time… and a few poems brought about by Covid and lockdown found their way in at the beginning.

Before that there was a short collection of poems - a pamphlet or chapbook Book of the Spirit, which I see as rooted in the mythologies of religion, of church, synagogue and the Zen Buddhist temple or monastery, and calling, too, on the Graeco-Roman gods and muses. This collection of poems borrows words, terminologies and phrases as well as their characteristic styles to resonate with the Christian and Jewish language and liturgies, with just a whisper of Far Eastern religions. The collection speaks from – and for – the spirit of the modern world. Again, many of my traditional images, found so often in my poems and writings – time, the horizon, the sea – as well of course as love, find a place again in these poems.

Between those two collection of poems I squeezed in a collection of short stories called - appropriately enough - When I Am Not Writing Poetry. Again much of this collection was written while I was locked down in front of his computer during Covid! And there are only so many poems a man can write! Several of the stories make oblique reference to the Covid ‘plague’ but other tales are a reflection of my earlier life, a half-dozen of them going all the way back to my time at sea! Several of the stories also bring to life some of the minor characters from The Dark Trilogy. Regular readers may notice a tendency to link themes to the sea! And if not the sea, then the horizon! The sea is always there!

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