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Motivated to understand all things on all levels is a somewhat intensive task, but one that is proving spiritually uplifting. That said, it is the source of my interest in the written word, a quest, to understand the self. Language and communication are at the root of our being, and perhaps human kinds greatest achievement but it is the written word that is our power.
I studied English Language and Literature at college and subsequently became a teacher of the subject. It was whilst at college that I developed a love of Middle English poetry, especially Chaucer. My other major influences include the works of the Romantic poets and the Pre-Raphaelite movement; Phillip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, & Simon Armatige, and more besides. College was also where I took my writing more seriously. I began writing whilst serving in the Army. This usually took the form of rebellious satire aimed at the officers and senior ranks, endowed as I am, with a sharp intellect and sense of fun, and no desire for promotion.
I like to think that I have strong aesthetic values, often seduced as I am, by the beauties of the World and the Universe. Unfortunately this particular aspect of my nature has yet to find it's way into my work. Which has often been described as humorous, dark and compelling, serving as it does, aspects of certain realities in a unique style.
I've had poems published in the UK & USA, also the Peruvian born composer Jimmy Lopez was commissioned to write a piece of music for the Tampere music festival in Finland in April 2008 and selected my poem 'Incubus' to work with. It was a great honour and privillage to work with Jimmy and the members of Poing! The band who performed the piece. Since the intial commission, which recieved it's world premiere in Tampere; Jimmy has composed another version for different instruments, which was performed in Germany in July 2008. www.tampere.fi/musicfestivals/biennale08/english/index.html
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A link for the piece wil be added soon.
please enjoy my work.
'if we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended
That you have but slumb’red here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream.'
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream.
God is dead. - Nietzsche; Nietzsche is dead. -God...
Video presentation of my poems
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