Writing

My environmental poems

Beach Rhythms at Mount Maunganui at 5pm The way ranks of clouds saunter across the sky The way sand ripples reflect dark shadows onto...

NZ Indie Book Fair coming up in Auckland

I’m launching my first book ‘Doctor Peter’s Good Earth Magic’ at the second New Zealand Independent Writers Book Fair in Auckland this...

Magical Mystical Pureora Forest Park – and Elections

POETRY: OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE Tony Chad, the editor of the Valley Micropress, the monthly broadsheet that...

Starting Again

It’s been a while, dear blog. Since my last entry I’ve written a fiction story of 100,00 words, a first draft, to be read and critiqued...

Life’s a beach even in winter

I’m house sitting at long, lonely lovely Himatangi Beach in the North Island of New Zealand. It is even used as a road the sand is so...

Poem for the new Age

Hi reader – Yesterday, a magnificent day, I drove back from Wanganui to Wellington in the North Island of New Zealand from checking out...

travel theme foliage

I travel and house sit, seeing new places and providing a service at the same time, living in beautiful homes for free but keeping them...

Novel finished – time for poems to emerge

Now that I’ve completed writing 50k words and before editing begins, poems squashed up inside me want to come out. There’s a special tree...