This collection brings together poetry written over many decades, offering not simply a selection of individual works but a sustained record of attention, inquiry and lived experience. Rather than presenting a unified stylistic programme, traces the evolution of a poetic consciousness across time, allowing shifts in voice, form and concern to emerge organically. What results is not a retrospective constructed for coherence, but an honest accumulation of work shaped by continuity of thought.
The poems move freely between formal and free verse, lyric meditation and narrative observation, philosophical reflection and the textures of everyday life. Language itself is frequently placed under scrutiny: its power to illuminate, its tendency to obscure and its frequent failure to capture experience in full. Poetry is approached here not as ornament or rhetorical display, but as a working tool, one that both enables and resists understanding.
Poetry, a therapy for the soul
When life takes its toll
No better relief
Brings healing as its goal.
I was born, I lived, and I am not yet dead.
I drifted from country to town but kept my head.
The seed that was me grew into a weed No matter where I planted my feet My life was always in retreat Yet my soul remained free.
From Miami to São Brás de Alportel, Hooley, New Orleans, Framlingham, Burgess Hill, Chicago, Luz de Tavira, Fleet, Boston, Sherborne St. John, Tavira.
I always kept myself in me.
Across two centuries, but not immortal, Just free.
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