Occupation
Computer Consultant
Date of birth
19th October 1961
Marital status
Single
Education
University
Interests
Art, Music, Writing, Cinema
Publish writing
A little in magazines in the US

Personal statement

Born in 1961 in a small Shropshire market town, I was soon scattered to the corners

of the UK with my parents when my father joined the RAF. My love of book outweighed

my poor reading skills and I soon learned to ignore the words that I couldn't see - an

interesting way to overcome a mild dyslexia no one bothered to tell me about.

In 1972 I was sent to boarding school, and adolescence triggered a wave of prolific

inept angst rhyme. At the same time I dabbled in comic verse which proved to be

more effective and entertaining - I once wrote a poem about the nutritional properties

of cellulose which I'm still rather fond of.

After leaving school in 1980 I spend a year in Liverpool trying to study Biochemistry.

However, instead of working I spent most of my time with a tragic girl who was to

influence my writing, my art and my life. It was at this time that I wrote most of what

I consider to be my best work.

Between 1984 and 1997 I stopped writing, not all together, but I never really wrote

anything of significance or interest, I spent most of the time concentrating on art and

music, two other keen interests in my life.

In 1996 I discovered the Internet and joined a cinema mailing list. It was at this time

I started writing film reviews, although they were less "reviews" and more like film

inspired poems. I developed a "you are there" style, rather then write a comment or

synopsis of the film I adopted the total immersion approach, evoking the imagery

and emotion of the film through language. It was at this time that another writer

suggested I should join a proper writers list.

I joined Sasha Stone's "The Writers Group" in 1997 and started looking over my old

work and playing with words again. Since then I have started my own list "Surreal"

which I predominantly use for word games, and developed a web page containing

most of the poetry from the 1984 period called "Pages from a Forgotten Notebook"

computer industry.

Oh and I live by the sea.