Do you ever wonder if your plastic bath toys could talk, what they would say? Well after five years of faithful bath service the plastic dolphin is finally allowed to talk, but Yoni, his unwitting master doesn't really get it - well not at first. Yoni's adventure takes him out of his home, out of his parent's safe hands and into a journey that will take him from one end of Tanzania (East Africa) to the other, because he is a boy that believed the voice of his plastic dolphin. What happened to the plastic dolphin in the past? Yoni finally learns the truth - a story within a story and finds...

Why Blood, Sweat and Tears? When a heart is touched by the events of life, for example, the more unsavoury, those situations and words that rip one's heart to shreds; then if you are a poet (or even if not) it seems to be a release, a form of written therapy, self expression which has to be employed. I call it "my poetical diary." I gave up writing a diary years ago, mainly because of two reasons. One, to be so dedicated and disciplined to write an entry almost every day seemed just a bit too much. Two, some of my girlfriends actually tried to read my, so called, 'secret thoughts', which...

Why Poetry of the Romantic? When a heart is touched by the events of life, for example, romantic entanglements, those situations and words that twang the slender golden chords of one's heart; then if you are a poet (or even if not) it seems that writing poetry is a release, a form of written therapy, self expression which has to be employed. I call it "my poetical diary." I gave up writing a diary years ago, mainly because of two reasons. One, to be so dedicated and disciplined to write an entry almost every day seemed just a bit too much. Two, some of my girlfriends actually tried to read...

Why Poetry of the Romantic? When a heart is touched by the events of life, for example, romantic entanglements, those situations and words that twang the slender golden chords of one's heart; then if you are a poet (or even if not) it seems that writing poetry is a release, a form of written therapy, self expression which has to be employed. I call it "my poetical diary." I gave up writing a diary years ago, mainly because of two reasons. One, to be so dedicated and disciplined to write an entry almost every day seemed just a bit too much. Two, some of my girlfriends actually tried to read...

'Minimalist Poetry and Limericks'. When writing poetry I am often drawn to the surreal, to the undefined, to the curious. I like to experiment, I love to try different forms of poetry writing; minimalist poetry (in that sense) is just another experiment, just another form of expression without using too many words. I really like the discipline of either trying to keep a poem brief, (sometimes very brief) or to convey intricate meaning/interesting word pictures in the least possible combination of words. Language, and I have to say the English language especially, has a rich tapestry of words...

Why Children's Poetry? Some of the poetry contained within this collection was directly inspired by the works of A. A. Milne and Spike Milligan; others just came unbidden. When writing children's poetry I am often in a mode of silliness, crazy mind pictures, the absurd or the down right ridiculous. I like the freeness of writing something that is not going to have a critique done to analyse the hidden meaning etc. behind the text. This poetry is unpretentious, it's straightforward, it celebrates the innocent time that we laughingly call nowadays, "Childhood." It is my belief that children in...

Why Children's Poetry? Some of the poetry contained within this collection was directly inspired by the works of A. A. Milne and Spike Milligan; others just came unbidden. When writing children's poetry I am often in a mode of silliness, crazy mind pictures, the absurd or the down right ridiculous. I like the freeness of writing something that is not going to have a critique done to analyse the hidden meaning etc. behind the text. This poetry is unpretentious, it's straightforward, it celebrates the innocent time that we laughingly call nowadays, "Childhood." It is my belief that children in...

Why Children's Poetry? Some of the poetry contained within this collection was directly inspired by the works of A. A. Milne and Spike Milligan; others just came unbidden. When writing children's poetry I am often in a mode of silliness, crazy mind pictures, the absurd or the down right ridiculous. I like the freeness of writing something that is not going to have a critique done to analyse the hidden meaning etc. behind the text. This poetry is unpretentious, it's straightforward, it celebrates the innocent time that we laughingly call nowadays, "Childhood." It is my belief that children in...

Why Christian Poetry? When a heart is touched by the events of life, for example, discovering the Saviour, being suddenly aware, conscious of the weight and significance of one's sin; those situations cause a response. This, 'response', can take many forms, if, by consequence, you are, like me a poet (or even if not) it seems that writing poetry is a channel of expression, a form of written therapy, self expression which has to be employed. It is akin to squeezing an orange - meaning it doesn't matter where you squeeze the orange, a spray of orange juice leeks out; the fragrance, of which,...

Why the title 'Poetry of Otherness'? Well, having perused the sum total of my work I noticed that there was a vast collection of poems which I could only classify as 'Other'. Consequently, the poetry within this volume covers a wide variety of subject matter. There are about 5 or 6 poems within this collection which after I had read them (for the first time in many years) I thought to myself, "Where on earth was my head when I wrote that poem?" So here it is the 'Off the Wall', strange, silly, obscure (I specialise in the obscure...), bizarre, odd, weird and wonderful and the down right...