A Dragonhoard Of Pigeons

A Dragon Hoard Of Pigeons is a collection of poems. Most were written in the last 10 years, though some have roots in a more distant lifetime. Many celebrate the accidental artist, the inadvertent master craft worker, the skilled artificer. They celebrate the urge to make stuff, with words, music, paint, coal or tiddlywinks. Products of the creator mind. Most of all, they celebrate the remarkable, joyful inventivity of language, in all its magic, mysterious forms, from the child's babble, the worker's paean to his labours, to the jewels of poets on whose shoulders we wobble. The writer was born in Hull in 1951. In 1965 he discovered . . . well you'll just have to read the poem for that. He taught various subjects for forty years, one of which, unaccountably, was English. During that time, he wrote and produced several musical dramas for young teenagers, as well as first drafts of two children's novels, numerous short stories and a number of children’s songs. His poems have been published in several poetry magazines, such as Orbis, Dream Catcher and Obsessed With Pipework. Most recently his work has appeared in The Alchemy Spoon, Otherwise Engaged and Dreich. He lives and writes in Rothbury, Northumberland, where he reads regularly in a poetry and music group, plays the Northumbrian pipes and grows cabbages, beans, potatoes, sprouts and onions. And caterpillars, pigeons and rabbits. He is a member of Cullerpoets, the National Poetry Society north-east stanza. Here are 140 of his poems.