Tracks is a free form family verse-saga, telling the story of Edward Blair, a wounded soldier returning from the Great War, and his life through the following decade. He rents a smallholding, with its distinctive black boarded house, one of the homes for heroes, in Little Woodcote, Carshalton.

Edward’s story, is one of love and loss, grief and despair, and ultimate redemption and happiness. He earns our respect, our sympathy (but never pity), our support as he struggles to recover from the horrors of war and the death of his wife and baby daughter from Spanish Flu, and our delight as he finds new love and happiness.

Although mostly written before the outbreak of coronavirus, it reflects our times, when we miss our friends and families and realise the value of their love and support.

The Hours was inspired by a visit to Hever Castle, and the room where The Book of Hours, given to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII, is exhibited. The script and illustrations are beautifully drawn and coloured.

This set of poems is written in sonnet form. It is taken at a remove from the language of the Divine Office, although the titles retain the names from it. The poems reflect the stages of a lifetime, from conception, through childhood, love and family, to old age and dementia, loss and life’s end.

The Artists does not set out to describe a particular painting but takes a broader view of the artist’s life, skills, favourite people and locations, or the background to an event immortalised on canvas.

Titian shows his love for Venice, Picasso the background of a market day and the massacre in Guernica. In Turner we admire the lyrical beauty of his use of form and colour, but also his darker moods of storm and tempest. Lichtenstein moves through pop art to cubism, his fellow American, Hopper, the loneliness of the city. The society portraits of Reynolds and Lawrence, provide ample material for protest and to rail against injustice and privilege.

On Love and War returns to the original concept of the sonnet as a love poem, although sometimes ‘hard love’.

Compassion, Persecution and Retribution are a triptych to be read together.

War Graves celebrates remembrance for the soldiers’ supreme sacrifice.

The Ashes of Memory, When Did Love Begin and Opening the Gates are a gentle celebration. Rosemoor’s Child is description of undemanding and mysterious affection and returns us to chivalric love.