Author Description

This book forms part of a personal journey out of darkness and into light, where love and theft are in constant conflict.When I released The Hill - Songs and Poems of Darkness and Light in 2014, I was trapped in a corner and struggling to live.The collection was published 15 months after I suffered an unexpected nervous breakdown.Part of my doctor's suggested therapy was for me to begin writing about the life experiences which had led to the breakdown... I did that through the songs and poems published in that book.From childhood sexual abuse, through cancer, bereavement, bankruptcy, divorce, the loss of two of my children and a vicious assault, there was a lot to write about.I am still proud of that work...100 pages of angst, joy, reflection and opinion. But I had to move on.By the middle of 2016, I was more than halfway through writing a raft of new songs and poems. I was out of the corner and fighting.Then by the time all the work for this book was concluded in May 2018, I was so far out of the corner you couldn't find meI had found my way home.Another Hill - Songs and Poems of Love and Theft is that journey.