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Poetry, Lyrics, Prose
Composers Today - 2022, (Music Poem)
Happy New Year - 2022, (New Year Poem)
Middle of Winter - 2021, (Love Poem)
The Bear - 2022, (The invasion of Ukraine)
Bubble - 2021, (Love Poem)
Opportunity's Whore - 2021, (Our Inglorious Leader)
Teddy - 2021, (A little ginger kitten's epic adventure)
Good Things - 2021, (Wedding Poem for friends)
One Person - 2020, (Love Poem)
The King of Fools - 2020, (One of the 21st Century’s more bizarre twists)
First Breath - 2020, (New Life)
Circus of Horrors - 2020, (An exercise in political anachronism…hopefully)
Westminster-On-Thames - 2020, (The state of British government in 2020)
The Amazing Mr Bimble - 2020, (For our much-missed cat)
Eight O'Clock Thursday - 2020, (In the midst of Coronavirus - Poem 3)
Still - 2020, (In the midst of Coronavirus - Poem 2)
Domino Quake - 2020, (In the midst of Coronavirus - Poem 1)
You Win - 2020, (Win or Lose?)
Marching for Eden - 2019, (Love Poem)
Pearl - 2018, (Love Poem)The Great Ronaldo - 2018, (Remembering my splendid father-in-law)
Brexit Means Brexit - 2017, (A Trojan Horse)
In Clover - 2017, (Love Poem)
Two Seats on the Hill - 2016, (Love Poem)
Milos - 2016, (Greek Island)
Jim - 2016, (For my late father)
Wendy - 2016, (For a dear friend who lived her last years in Greece)
Side By Side - 2015, (Love Poem)
Naxos - 2015, (Greek Island)
Willow Yurt - 2014, (Love Poem)
Andros - 2014, (Wonderful Greek Island)
A Whole Brain - 2013, (for our Silver Wedding Anniversary)
End of the Road Festival - 2013, (for the End of the Road Festival)
1927 Grand Eagle Ball - 2013, (Inspired by an evening with Laura Marling & Secret Cinema)
Two Cicadas - 2012, (Love Poem)
Pictures of You - 2011, (Love Poem)
Door to Door - 2011, (Sci Fi poem on time travel)(Available to listen to as a podcast, EPISODE 18)
What can do all this? - 2011, (To the love of music)
Pages Turn - 2010, (Love Poem)
Alyki - 2010, (Charming Fishing Village on the Greek Island of Paros)
Sir Roderick of Hook's Birthday - 2010, (50th Birthday Poem)
Masala of our years - 2009, (Love Poem)
A One Horse Town - 2009, (Debut Sci Fi poem - broadcast on Episode 98 of Aural Delights, Starshipsofa)(Available to listen to as a podcast, EPISODE 12)
Lucky - 2008, (Love Poem)
Echoes in the sea of sound - 2008, (Tribute to Rick Wright)
Casa del Wood - 2008, (A long weekend in Denia)
Headsup - 2008, (In hope for the Global Village)
A Seed to be Sown - 2008, (Ecopoem - inspired by Roy Harper)
Ticking Clocks - 2007, (Love Poem)
Isle of Jewels - 2007, (A week in Southern Ireland)
You - 2006, (Love Poem)
Images of India - 2006, (Travels in India)
Tempest - 2005, (Love Poem)
Seven Cages - 2005, (What's a modern lifetime?)
Ionian Jewel - 2005, (Enchanted by the Greek island of Kefaloniá) also appears on the Kefalonia Travel Guide website
Pet Words - 2005, (Like, know what I mean?)
Flash in the pan - 2005, (Man has had the briefest of reigns, but has had the greatest impact on the planet of any creature)
Wealth of Information - 2005, (Who are "They" and what do they know?)
Barcelona belongs to you - 2005, (For a fabulous city)
I Quit - 2005, (Out the door fantasy)
Brighton by-the-sea - 2005, (A Poem for our splendid seaside town)
Two Peas in a Pod - 2004, (Love Poem)
Business as usual - 2004, (Comment on the US election)
The Charm of Larmer - 2004, (For the Larmer Tree Festival) Performed at the 2005 festival by the Misguided Tour
Two Halves of a Perfect Whole - 2004, (Wedding poem)
The Great Escape - 2004, (A friend's life changing decision)
Mémoire - 2004, (Tongue-in-cheek look at an aging memory)
And Then - 2003, (Comment on the Iraq War)
Ghataki - 2003, (Poem for our kitten)
From Flux - 2003, (A rhyme - from the novel Flux)
To Flux - 2003, (The main characters adressing Flux - from the novel Flux)
A Ditty for our City - 2002, (Written in the interval at a John Hegley gig & read out by him)
Homo Sapiens - 1995, (A swipe at human stupidity)
King Commute - 1991, (The dehumanisation of cogs in the machine)
Lead Lolly - 1990, (Prophetic attack on debt)
Poll Tax Blues - 1990, (Lyrics about the Tories' Poll Tax)
Summer Sea - 1985, (Light-hearted seaside poem 2)
The Sunbather - 1985, (Light-hearted seaside poem 1)
How do you say? - 1985, (Shy young love)
Dream - 1984, (On Dreaming)
Reflections - 1984, (Thoughts in an idle moment)
The Familiar Groove - 1984, (Concern for a young friend teetering on the brink of alcoholism)
That Future Day - 1983, (One in a series of daydreams about love)
The Curtain Rises - 1983, (One in a series of daydreams about love)
Venus - 1983, (One in a series of daydreams about love)