I’ve been writing prose, plays and poetry for years, so have a cupboard full of material stashed away, which I occasionally scrutinise furtively. It’s like looking through windows into the past. Into a past mind, in fact.

All these literary forms provide plenty of scope for the unconscious to rise, dripping, from the depths, telling you much about yourself that you thought was sunk with a concrete strait-jacket.

Much of it is a dance between philosophical enquiry, humour and love, death and identity. Nothing unusual there, maybe! We are what we write. There is a slow unfolding of new selves that stem from the process of placing words on the page.

 

I have here a play. It has not been performed as yet, though there has been a deal of interest by London producers. I include the whole play for downloading. If you want to read/stage the whole thing, write to me at my website. It is free for you to appraise. We can negotiate if you want to produce it.

This play charts the lives of two characters – moving between their relationship as boys in the 1950s and today. Their interactions provide the backcloth to a central educational debate – can Art be reduced to skills and competencies or is it a freer, more irascible beast that cannot be corralled in this way? Does the attempt to reduce it via a bureaucratic inspectorate rob it of its anarchic creativity? It has a mix of dynamic dialogue, psychological intensity and provocative action with some violence.

Download the complete play as a word doc.

 

Here is the beginning of a trilogy of novels under the title,Azimuth. It represents the first chapters of the first novel.The first two completed books will be on sale in late autumn 2010;.

Azimuth is a trilogy within envelopes, so to speak. Rather like 1001 Nights, tales are told by Kamil, a historian, to a listener, Sabiya. As the stories unfold we learn more about the subject of the tales – an almost mythical figure called The Magus – as well as the machinations, plots and subterfuges of the court of Sabiya. The dry historian changes as he tells his tales and Sabiya makes demands on him and, at the same time, his effect upon Sabiya becomes equally dramatic.

View the first two chapters as a word doc.

If you would like to talk to me about this novel please email.