Kara’s birthday poem
I should have posted this at the end of March, when it was Kara’s birthday.Histories Where should I start, And how do I begin?There are stories in all of usThat… Continue Reading
Remembering The Dictator
So she killed my generation And I’m supposed to keep my mouth shut?So she killed my countyAnd we’re supposed to be kind to herNow she’s dead? Let her family mourn… Continue Reading
Birthday poem for Alex
How It Is This is how it is. The things we do best we never plan. We just let go, so our bodies take over. The memory of where… Continue Reading
A Study – transcript from my journal, 20/02/2013
Sitting in Waterstones Piccadilly. Queues forming for Nicholas Sparks and two actors from his latest book to be made into a film. I’ll be there one of these days. I… Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day poem
The things I wish for always disappear. I don’t see enough of you,naked,in the soft light of day,nor in the harshness of artificial light,now I think about it.Routine and habits… Continue Reading
Why I’ve become sexually explicit
Let me tell you a secret. At one point in Dead Men, I closed a chapter without what my editor considered a suitable climax, for want of a better word…. Continue Reading
On 2012
As I get ready to turn my machines off for over a week, the time has come for a brief reflection on this year. I know I still owe posts… Continue Reading
Radio Stradbroke Sunday Sessions
Well, a mix-up in diaries meant I got to do my second solo show in this season of Radio Stradbroke’s Sunday Sessions, and the three hours just zipped by. I… Continue Reading
Amundsen’s Secret Diary
Any author goes through countless versions of a book before the final, definitive text is sent to be published. Dead Men was no different. There were three different endings, several… Continue Reading
Frederick Hooper’s diary, 12th November 1912
F.J. Hooper was one of the party who went searching for Captain Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Captain Oates, and P.O. Evans in October 1912, after the Polar Party had not returned… Continue Reading