About the Author
My writing is the product of 14 years of Quaker boarding school, five years of medical school and a career spent producing technical reports, first for Government and then (the main part of my working life) for pharmaceutical companies.
I've written two medical thrillers along the way (one self-published on Amazon [THE HAMMERHEAD EFFECT] and many articles for the UK flying magazines PILOT and FLYER - I even got paid for those.
I write poetry because I find it the most intense and concentrated form of conveying meaning and emotion. I think poetry should conform to a structure and should rhyme. I don't like (most) free verse. So shoot me.
Sketching and drawing used to be a hobby too, and recently I have started drawing again. I like faces especially, and there is something about pencil or pen that is magical. Not for the likeness of the sketch portrait - in fact exactly the opposite. Attempting a portrait as a line-drawing (even monochrome) involves seeing and conveying the essence of a person, which may not be apparent in a mere likeness.
Flying has been a hugely important part of my life since childhood, and I am lucky enough to hold a pilot's licence with instrument rating, and to own an aircraft. I may be no Antoine de St Exupery, and I'm no match for John Gillespie Magee either but I will get round to trying to convey some of the thrill and magic of flight in my poetry (and maybe pictures) sooner or later. Other things keep cropping up, though.
