Journey

""A fly on the wall insight of the memories, imagination and journeys of a boy from a council estate who late in life discovered the joy of performance poetry. When a boy born in the sixties and raised in the seventies takes up poetry he writes about what he knows and what he primarily knows is - a mish-mashed potpourri of life lived experiences, imaginings, observations and a love of all things bookish. 57 years has resulted in a mediocre high school education, an eclectic variety of jobs from Chef to Croupier to Tutor, marriage, four amazing sons, a grandson, divorce, mental health problems, arthritis, social anxiety and crippling self doubt. Following all this and somehow, to the bewilderment of himself he not only gained a BA(Hons) but also a Masters degree from the renowned Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. This is ians first solo collection of musings, recollections, imaginations, poetic tales and reactions. Some of the poems in this book are reflective, some are an insight into the authors past and the rest are, well a mish mash of whatever randomness goes through a poets head at times. Some are fun, some are retrospective and a couple investigate what could be described as a difficult truth.""