Dream Tyne – Travels Around the North East Coast (Part One)
Robin Hood’s Bay 1 I needed to get away. Somewhere quiet, isolated. I wanted to finish drafting my dissertation in a place with no distractions. The problem was that an … Continue reading
Shortwave Eights
I’m thrilled to announce that my very first album of poetry is now available on Bandcamp Called ‘Shortwave Eights’ each poem – most from my recent book ‘Vague Wisdom’ – … Continue reading
Firefrost and Fundindelve – Travels Around Alderley Edge (Part Two)
iii -The Wild Magic Alderley Edge, or at least my Alderley Edge, exists only in my mind and there is now little correlation between the reality and fantasy Edges. Perhaps … Continue reading
Firefrost and Fundindelve – Travels around Alderley Edge (Part One)
i. Firefrost and Fundindelve The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner’s 1960 novel has had me entirely in thrall for almost 50 years. It is a timeless tale of good versus … Continue reading
A Psalm of Stone – Travels around Avebury (Part Two)
7 The lack of stones, the absence of carvings made Avebury feel somehow ‘less’. Not being able to see the sites that thrilled me as a child was a deep … Continue reading
A Psalm of Stone – Travels Around Avebury (Part One)
1 In 1977, ITV first broadcast a children’s TV drama – produced by HTV – called ‘Children of the Stones.’ Set in the Neolithic village of ‘Milbury,’ it told a … Continue reading
Ardnamurchan
i -1968 When I was four years old, we went on holiday with to the exotic sounding Ardnamurchan Point on the west coast of Scotland. I remember leaving home in the … Continue reading
Travels Around Summerisle
This piece formed a part of my PhD thesis. The section this is extracted from dealt with the uncanny, the weird, the eerie, and my reactions to them. I illustrated … Continue reading
Tales From the Urban Prairie – Available now!
Click on Picture to Purchase – £12 Tales From The Urban Prairie: Stories, Histories, Recollections and Urban Legends from Kelvin Flats. In the 1980’s and 90’s, I lived in a … Continue reading
Twelve Short Poems – Now Available
Click on picture to purchase – £5 Originally a handmade and hand-bound gift created on Christmas Day 2023. Twelve Days, Twelve Poems, Twelve People… Not a Christmas themed poem among … Continue reading
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