various day-jobs as befits a struggling novelist.
Major influences are Henry Miller, C S Forrester, John Steinbeck, Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Alejio Carpentier, T S Eliot, W H Auden, R S Thomas, Ted Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, John Clare, Walt Whitman, Lorca, Cavafy, Basho, Issa, William Carlos Williams, and so on and so on and so on.......   

still here

I've had a few difficult years one way and another. Boho/Bluechrome press took a couple of years slowly going into receivership - while I had 4 books with them. Latterly BeWrite Books has undergone major reorganisation, and it too is about to cease trading March 31st 2013. I'm no longer therefore their poetry editor. BeWrite did though bring out a second edition of 'The Secret Report of Friar Otto'. Phew! Friar Otto has since then got wonderful reviews. I can only hope that Endeavour Press take it on as they have 'Marks' - releasing it under the new title 'Hit and Run'

The Journal & Original Plus
welcome to the home page of the Journal and Original Plus. It also contains information regards all my books, plus various links, even an occasional blog.

Amazon author page
Most of my books are there.

Online Originals
they submitted my novel, Sister Blister, for the 2000 Booker Prize; and in 2004 brought it out in a very handsome hardback edition.

DPDdotcom
David took on my novel, Something's Wrong, and designed - design is his forte - an ace cover for it.