Words from my keyboard

Welcome to my website. I am 68. I have a gorgeous wife Annie and two beautiful sons; I love to write. I am a retired teacher, lapsed Waterstones’ bookseller and former Basketball Coach. I taught for twenty years and coached women’s basketball for over thirty years before taking up writing seriously. These days, I regularly teach at creative writing workshops in and around Leicester and I take notes for students with Special Needs at Leicester University and the University of Warwick.

I have always loved books and reading, but nine years at Waterstone’s nearly put paid to that! I love to write poetry. I feel this is the best way to show emotion in writing and it gives me a wonderful sense of well-being.
I’ve had a work commissioned by the UK Arts Council and had several pieces published traditionally as well as on-line.

I have had some of my work placed in magazines and anthologies and also exhibited in art galleries, studios, museums and at Huddersfield Railway Station Waiting Room.