Attended Moseley Art School, Fircroft College, Marieborgs College,Sweden and the Universities of Cardiff and Leicester. Influences include W.H.Auden, Dylan Thomas, T.S.Eliot, Robert Frost, Paul Auster, Charles Bukowski, John Steinbeck and William Shakespeare. A great admirer of the French cinema and certain American film directors. His motivation perhaps stems from a compulsion and need to create daily which means a frequent change of disciplines to accomodate this drive. Much of his work is also politically motivated yet he has written about love, the joy of life, the inevitability of death and the wonder of planet earth.

Has toured the U.S of A reading his poetry as well as Denmark, Holland (on numerous occassions), Belgium, Sweden, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Borneo and France as well as 500 readings in the U.K.
In 2002 he was made a member of the Guild of St George and over the last thirty years his work has been exhibited in England, France, Scotland, Wales, Holland, Belgium and Portugal.