n these pages you can browse a selection of my verse. Please choose from the menus above.

The email link here referred to an address which for some lengthy period I was unable to access. Apologies to anyone who tried to contact me using links on this site and never received a reply of any sort. In effect that old yahoo address is totally dead. The link on this page is fixed now (July 31, 2014) and points to my valid Gmail address, which I do try to check regularly except when I’m incommunicado on a mountain somewhere.

Now here’s a picture to fill out the page: an image of one of the world’s great artworks, perhaps the greatest and oldest. I refer to the image below, of course.

Brief bio

I was born young, of Anglo-Irish parents. I’ve lived in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia of course, and a few other places. In another life I was an academic philosopher. Since then I’ve worked irregularly in editing and copywriting. I’m also a bit of a jazz muso, and played stride piano on ocean liners for a few years. And one hell of a gig it was for meeting a succession of ladies on the lookout for that little shipboard fling. Not to mention that I was able to spend many of my working hours in a very pleasant alcoholic haze. I was fired for missing the ship after a woman in Crete tied me up to keep me in port, but don’t tell anyone that.

I’m canny enough to have remained a bachelor, and I’ve mellowed somewhat over the years in what others might see as my male chauvinism. The truth is that I adore my freedom and the company of women, in roughly equal measure. I suppose I’m just an old-fashioned bachelor. I’m all for the male homosexual fraternity spreading their gospel widely, so as to leave more women for those of us who are able to appreciate them.

These days, I study life extension and am involved in an entrepreneurial superfoods business, mainly in Asia, though I return periodically to an Australian base. I used to scrape a living from a combination of occasional keyboard gigs with local bands, the few stray editorial assignments that came my way, and (God forgive me) voiceovers for TV commercials.

My computer skills are primitive. I couldn’t make a web page in a fit. I’m grateful indeed to the multi-talented Peter Bloxsom for setting up these pages for me, and I heartily recommend his service, although I understand he currently has other fish to fry.