New poetry book: 'Ashes'

Published today: Ashes, a new volume of uncollected poetry. Some of the poems have been previously published in various magazines, journals and anthologies.

Ashes features two poem sequences: 'Crow' and 'Dewlap'. The latter was written for R. S. Thomas, and the former is the earliest selection of work in this volume, dating back to the 1980s.

There are travel poems from India, Burma, Tunisia and elsewhere, and there are poems exploring the themes of Birth, Life and Death. One of the longer poems is an exploration of of what used to be called Manic Depression although there is also humour to be found in the book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-ebook/dp/B009HCXNPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348773777&sr=8-1

POEM FOR MY FUNERAL.

Now I’m dead,

keep me in your 

head; remember 

me. Taste the milk

white petals of

our tears, put

fears aside and

keep me in your

head; remember

me. Keep the silence

of the house at

times as a

whisper; an intake 

of quiet breath.

Like we’re sleeping.

Remember me; consider

and return to those

places we visited

together: those sun-

filled, scented streets.

The stones and

wells, the sea-sides

and the souks:

remember me. Keep

me in your head,

dead only in those

cold hours while we

sleep.

Keep me in your

heart: put me between

the heartbeats hear

my pulse thump in

those moments.

Remember me: keep

me in your head.

Dead and not dead.