strayastraya is a book of hauntings, a parliament of ghosts, public and private, the story of a small town Orpheus lost in the brusque shadows of a land down under. It's a treatise on grief, atrocity and human tragedy seen through the eyes of a bewildered mourner in exile, a travelogue of land and soul unravelling the complex carnage of our redacted histories, a song book of love and hate, of sorrow and celebration, of cold despair and stubborn hope.

and Arab authors

complete with contextualizing essays

or standing up for himself in a way that only makes sense if he is engaged with others

The healing wells of the Christian saints then give way to the health spas of Victorian times

and the question of redemption

" - Nottingham Evening Post

' these poems are absolutely right

presses charges against injustice and oppression

He was the first (20th Century) poet-in-residence at The Wordsworth Trust

since the daffodils

as Edward Lucie-Smith noted

This theme is most clearly captured in the final love poems