Welcome
After The Gathering Night was published in 2009, I didn’t publish a book for fifteen years. I wrote poetry, occasional stories and articles, generally about connection, or lack of connection, between human and other lives. This seems to me the burning issue of our troubled times. Return to rural life, gardens, and wanderings among hills, woods, rivers and coasts, became a source of inspiration and, just possibly, regenerative hope. It all took time, in some ways a long retreat.
The culture in which I grew up is, as expected, fragmenting. Environmental collapse accelerates. War, famine, pestilence and death quickly follow. My generation have failed to turn back the tide. If anyone can bring healing out of this, it will be people younger than me who already confront the equivocal future with hope and courage.
But I couldn’t just stand back. Words are powerful: they change the way we see the world. I no longer felt part of any literary scene, but I had to say something.
Lost People emerged from this background. Now selected poems are finally coalescing into a collection, Time Seeds, to be published by Wild Goose in 2026.
