You will also find, included on the 'influences page', some interesting references to my favourite poets and their work – along with readings of their poems, delivered by me on both the 'video' and 'readings' pages.
Apart from placing my own work in the public eye, my hope, is to engage with the human soul and suggest that poetry is inside all our heads and in elements of our daily lives. Poetry may provide many of the answers we seek to the deeper and more profound difficulties life presents us with.
From the beginnings of my own involvement with poetry, I liked the way it shone a light and illuminated people who seemed to be in agreeance with my own thoughts and feelings, or pointed out new ways of looking at shared or analogous situations. In fact, there are authors, dead and alive, who I feel have walked with me for most of my adult life and offered great support with their words and the way they chose to communicate. I hope my work and other aspects of this site will be useful to you in a similar way. Peace.