In June 2010 my father died after an illness that had started to afflict him about a year previously, as far as I could tell. He was 84 and had led a mostly very happy life, but the way he had lived it certainly didn’t warrant such suffering. I had been working on my poems as usual, intending to get together a collection, but everything had to be put on hold for, as it turned out, about two years. This is the result of my picking things up again, but making this collection a tribute to my Dad and conveying something of what his life meant to me. I have loosely taken the song ‘My Way’ as a theme, this being my Dad’s favourite song of his favourite singer, Frank Sinatra. Some of the poems are about what happened to him, but I mostly want to celebrate his path through life and how it set mine in motion.