Books

Published by Verborum Editions

A poetry collection bringing together published and unpublished poems of three decades

A concise introduction to writing a haiku that takes the beginner through the process of capturing the fleeting moment or a high point of experience.

A new verse translation of The Bhagavad Gita with an introduction, notes on the text and a concluding essay.

A modern, readable and relevant English language version of the Chinese classic text

We do not know how we came to be here and our lives, in a manner of speaking, are lived for us. We accept life because we are unable to refuse it.

These aphorisms and essays on order and meaning explore why the quest for definitive statement and certainty is at odds with openness to experience

In 1993 I wrote a poem a day for my wife Caron, to rescue something from the passing days. Here are a few of them.

The poems in this collection are reflections on a post-war childhood, growing up in the industrial West Riding of Yorkshire.