This collection was first published by Poetry Monthly Press in 2005 and has been recently revised. I am told I am old-fashioned, that my poems speak of a bygone age. Perhaps they do, but I prefer to think of them as timeless. One of them, The Dreamtime, is exactly about living in that timeless dream state, a state of conscious creation. When we go within and the heart speaks perhaps it will speak a language that resonates with a time past or perhaps a time future? All I know is that I wrote myself a path out of my own personal darkness and this is meant to be an intimate sharing, not a...

YOUNG TOURIST ON VACATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FALLS FOR A MYSTERIOUS OLDER WOMAN AND GETS MORE THAN SHE BARGAINS FOR: Beautiful woman by day, blood lusting cougar by night, Berenice is the guardian of an ancient knowledge. She has lived through many ages of man, a solitary creature who yearns for a love lost long ago. The Canadian forest provides a last safe refuge for Berenice and here she meets a tourist couple hoping to renew their fading marriage on a wilderness camping adventure. All is not as it seems when her desire to protect is aroused by a sense of great danger lurking for the...

Meeting Mogwyn is a literary essay and a response to a visit to Calke Abbey, the house that time forgot. It is full of rich description of the author's day, the people he meets, the stately home and its surroundings. It is an intimate and detailed sharing of warm Summer's day in Derbyshire and yet it is something more too. Colin Edward Mason was enjoying his unplanned day trip to an art exhibition at Calke Abbey when he experienced the inexplicable - voices from the past, and the name "Mrs Fitch." Questioning the tour guide posed more questions than it answered. Mrs Fitch, or Nanny Fitch was...