These creative pieces reflect a recent trip made to Sicily (5-12 September 2023) undertaken with my wife Olena, sister Rosanna and nieces Sara & Paola. The trip began in Giardini Naxos and encompassed visits to Enna, Agrigento, Ragusa, Syracuse, Aci Castello, and back to Giardini Naxos with a night visit to Taormina. …
Three poems set in the UK. I wrote them in late autumn 2021 – early winter 2022.
An account of a journey I took in November 2021 from Vasto in Italy to Lancaster in the UK
Cerasuolo is an Italian village in the province of isernia, Molise. The poems were written there, inspired by what I’ve seen and heard in that beautiful village.
On the second day of the year, a crisp, sunny winter’s day, we crossed from Lancashire into Cumbria – destination Carlisle. Any preconceived notions we may have had about visiting this attractive border market town were quickly wiped away by the charm of its historical centre containing both a cathedral and a castle. Luckily our…
Shaped by history, shaped by the events of a past unrecorded, unheralded, he parks his little red car, decants his little grey wife and pads around to the boot in order to fetch the array of food shopping, bags carefully arranged side-by-side never one-on-top-of-the-other in the cramped space. His little speckled beige & grey moustache twitches over the extra effort…
A poem I wrote in May 2000 upon meeting a ‘prophet’ builder/labourer in Mahalapye village, Central Botswana, by the river Limpopo.
