About This Website
Do you subscribe to the idea that writing poetry does not need to be formally learnt? Do you also agree that poetry writing is more than an art form, it is a craft?
More significantly, are you one of those people like me who enjoy rhyming poetry, whether it is humorous or not? And that rhyming poetry is “alive and kicking”, that is, rhyming poetry is not dead?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the above questions, then you are sure to like the poems on this website, and perhaps even keep visiting me on this site.
Do you also like reading short fiction, especially literary as well as crime fiction? Assuming you do, you may well like the short fiction that will appear on this website.
Welcome to my website. Here you will find poems and short stories that I want to share with you all. Consider this site as a portfolio of my poetry and prose. I also enter poetry and short fiction competitions and/or submit my poems and stories to magazines. Depending on the results, links will be provided to those magazines and /or competition websites.
About Me
Born in Kenya in 1953, I am an Afro-Asian and came to the UK as a British subject in 1970. After four years of being in Jamaica in the Caribbean I returned to the UK. Although being an Accounts graduate, my primary interest is in Literature, and more specifically in Creative Writing.
I achieved a Credit pass in English Language and Literature in 1985. More recently I successfully completed more than four online courses in English Literature with the Continuing Education Department at the University of Oxford. By 2019, I gained a Certificate in Short Story Writing from the London School of Journalism. As regards Poetry writing, I am ‘self-taught’ in that I read a wide range of poetry from that of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats and Emily Bronte to the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, most notably Langston Hughes.
My main poetic inspiration is from John Keats. And my main source of inspiration for fiction writing is F. Scott Fitzgerald.
