1.Why Poetry?  

 Well I started writing poetry during lockdown 2020. By taking the time to understand nature better the words just came, almost as photographs. So I wrote, I found it a way to get emotions from my  head. I joined and later became an admin of a Facebook Poetry Group called Dark Poetry Society,where i soon learned to write many different genres and interact with poets on a daily basis.

               In short :

Poetry massages my mind and is a spring cleaning of my soul.

2. Tell us about your most recent collection.

The second book I released is called The Saga of Sir Bumble and Tales From the Butterleaf Realm. Part of what will be my inner child series it is meant to appeal to a wider audience.. from 8 to 80 and maybe more. It puts animals and insects centre stage and whilst it reads like a poetic novel

It has many messages and lessons to teach.

3. Give the backstory behind one of your poems

The Saga of Sir Bumble. A Bumble bee who has no sting. As a drone he would normally idle is time away waiting for a chance to mate. Not this guy, he became a poet Knight, grabbed a Holly leaf for a shield and a hawthorn for a lance and off he went.The quest for the sacred honey tree.

The idea came from sitting in the garden in lockdown when a hive of bees set up In the eaves of my house and I became intrigued at their behaviour. Hopefully while giving many characters human like traits, the Saga reads something like a chivalrous pursuit of adventure.

4. Who are 3 poets you always recommend?

Always I have to mention the masters first

Frost, Longfellow and of course Edgar Allan Poe. They have helped to guide my journey

But I now read a hundred or so poems a day from modern poets.

4. Who are 3 poets you always recommend?

Always I have to mention the masters first

Frost, Longfellow and of course Edgar Allan Poe. They have helped to guide my journey

But I now read a hundred or so poems a day from modern poets.

5. I am currently reading….Not Poetry but I am in the middle of The Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan, a 14 book series that creates a world of fantasy rivalling Tolkein’s Middle Earth. Those keep me sane after my daily dose of poetry, my admin duties and of course writing my own poetry and ‘ Sinister Short Stories.’

My first collection ‘ My Black Swan Calling’

Shows a little of my darkside as well as my affinity for nature.My books, as have my poems, are evolving and I have a number to be proof read and published when time allows.

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