playing conkers without shinpads

'playing conkers without shinpads' is an exploration in poetry to the world seen through the eyes of a thoroughly 'English' man who happens to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth.

It reaches into his past through imagination and history; sometimes yearning that those days would return. It also looks at the present; at times with a certain distaste. And then there are poems that are purely whimsical, the imaginary and the myths.

A chapbook of 50 varied poems