A Genuine Mistake – A Darkly Comic Novel.
Everyone is faking it except Jude – art expert and Patron Saint of Lost Causes. Brothers Tom and Dan are both in love with Maddie – a doctor with a nasty habit. When Dan accidentally frightens a priest to death, the brothers are blackmailed by Harry Baxter, a local villain into stealing a Dali masterpiece.
23 years later Sal, an LA comic is given the deeds to the Orange Club in Camden, London by his mother Maddie. All roads lead to Barcelona and a bloody showdown in the rain. Will Sal find the Dali and his estranged Father and save the Orange ? It’s up to Jude really.
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Lockdown 28 – Poetry Book for Charity
Some cried – some laughed – some got inspired when Covid 19 first hit New Zealand, and the country was forced into lockdown. What to do ? I challenged myself to write a poem a day for 28 days. The idea was to raise funds for those worst effected and to cheer people up by giving them something to look forward to. Here’s an extract from Day 2….. which I read live on local radio.
I hope she makes it I say out loud to Charlie, my dog as the ferry drifts away across the Strait
The check out girl just wants to eat a pie sleep hug her Mum before the rules change again and her bubble bursts
As we scramble for the last of the wine and flour she begins to cry leaving the front line clutching her minimum wage for the darkest of hours
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33 – Poems
Love, regret & dirty laundry – miles away from home.
This is from “Barossa.” 2002
Long and dusty, with a mysterious air she swaggers through the grapes hair following, immersed in smoke fuming from the cheek of the man
Sipping from a glass taken like a hasty photograph a right laugh in the face of someone negative
Ripe, plucked from life squashed by men, machines and hasty assumptions that she was ready and willing for anything that goes blindly into the arms of a monster......
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Pretty Real – Poems
For all the users, abusers and bullshitters. Maybe abstract madness or maybe jazz poetry.
From “Bathhouse” 2018
Not so much cloaked more of a jacket really military style although standing quite casually in the Bathhouse Oblivious to the curious stairs she takes singled handed shots of the view through the grubby window prints from the lunchtime children debris from startled ducks
With any luck she’ll turn around and be pleased with her art as she taps the table with her stick smiling at nothing obvious or visible in her dark world of beauty through eyes that see only what she wants to
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Sunset 92 – Poems
Sunset 92 was inspired by a Paul Weller track – On Sunset – where he laments good times gone by. I first went to Los Angeles in 92 with my friend Robert.
Like kids in a sweetshop we had a blast and I wrote some of it down. Most of these poems were penned after 92 but the inspiration still blows in the wind. Like the palm trees do.
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