Poem Published

Good news - my poem Vanitas has been accepted by The Interpreter's House and will be out shortly. I'll post it after it has appeared.

The poem is written after reading a lot of Paul Durcan and is influenced by him, I think. The poem derives from the sale of a house in Barry, South Wales which, effectively, ended my link to the town I grew up in. On the last day before I left I was walking on the seaside and remembered a meeting 40 years before with a man who talked about growing up in Barry. A vanitas is a style of painting in which objects such as candles, flowers, skulls are used to emphasise the inevitability of time passing and the vanity of expecting otherwise.