The poetry and prose is part prequel, sequel and companion to the 2011 anthology of poems “In Violet” and the autobiography “I Saw Her Standing There” that was published during the Covid 19 pandemic. The places and everyone that appear in these poems are real and among many you will discover “Dick The Barber” and “Doctor Robert” and “Elvis” did make his appearance. Born in the 1950s, growing up in Merseyside, training at the Laird School of Art in photography and design, Liverpool became a special place and many of the poems remember life, events and death in the north west of England. As a photographer, capturing atmospheric moments in time in different monochrome shades has always been my preferred way of recording the joy or bleakness of light and so it is with poetry. Some of the poems recall events as in that “Cat in the Park” or “Zephyrs” which visually appear stark, shocking and brutal but in no way are meant to offend and possibly offer instead a cautionary tale when words can often be mesmerising and hauntingly contemplative and in the end make you hopefully more thoughtful. Scattered randomly throughout the book are a series of Haiku works inspired and woven by our natural world of sensual humanity, remembering that poetry is often written to stir emotion or passion. If any of the writings make you smile or weep or even angry, then maybe they have been worthwhile. And as for “Zig Zag Road” … you will meander there in the end … and yes it really does exist and it is a road I have travelled and walked a thousand times or more. Merseyside has two Zig Zag Roads, mine is close to the River Mersey, New Brighton, where I grew up but I guess we all have our own winding lanes that can lead us to often unexpected places.
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