As a kid Dan used to be interested in numbers, big numbers. Once he acquired a large notebook with wide plain pages and he began adding numbers together 1+1 = 2, 2+2 = 4, 4+4 = 8, doubling as he
Horizon 2040 – The Beginning – 13 – The Laboratory
Slowly, as he woke, Dan felt the presence his girlfriend, Tara. He remembered the excitement when once they’d met in the cool of the concrete cages at the side of the laboratory, where the tall, torpedo-like gas cylinders were kept.
Horizon 2040 – The Beginning – 12 – The Accident
Drenched in sunshine, he’d packed his car in no time. He’d been renting the house, there was no furniture to worry about, just his bike and several suitcases, one extraordinarily heavy, stuffed with books. He had to take the front
Horizon 2040 – The Beginning – 11 – Hope
Daniel remembered how the cars on the main road near his home would sound different from one day, one moment, to the next. This was most noticeable when the traffic was moving slowly, as if the cars were flowing to
Horizon 2040 – The Beginning – 10 – First Meetings
Tuesday 29th April 1997 Leaving behind the Millennium Bridge in his imagination and the dark fortress of Tate Modern Daniel walked further on the South Bank, passing the OXO Tower which he recollected had been the host to an exhibition
GAIA. Being. Alive – Book launch 22nd April 2023
EARTH DAY INVITE You’re warmly invited to the launch of GAIA. Being. Alive and Horizon 2040 – the beginning, on Earth Day, Saturday 22nd April at Sankeys’ upstairs function room Tunbridge Wells, from 7:30pm. Dear friends, yes it’s a launch
Wood Anemone
It’s April the sun is tender as it opens the gift of Spring…
Together we walk on the Common
I offer this poem for National Poetry Day, 7th October 2021 and for World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2021 Together We Walk on the Common Dark clouds threaten, rain not bombs
Dear Dylan…
Great to be part of this tribute anthology to Dylan Thomas…with ‘Skomer’ …and lovely words from his grand daughter Hannah Ellis Visit IndigoDreams And see the YouTube video clip Bless you Dylan…
From moment to moment…
Even now, after over twenty years, there is a certain mystery about exactly what happened, and why, especially why. Seemingly out of nowhere, the world took on a certain magic, conjured coincidences, showed me new meaning in things, places, people,
Mental wellbeing and psychosis
Here’s a link to an interview with my brother (tbc) Visit: https://youtu.be/1FOPEvS6fqc
YouTube Videos
YouTube XXX1 – Chilling Rooms This is the thirty-first in a series of poems, and reflections, with the underlying themes of creativity, mental health and the environment, drawing on my experience of bipolar disorder. Many years ago, when I was