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Histories of the Heart

Music | CD | £12

Recorded in Cambridge in 2019, ‘Histories of the Heart’ comprises ten of my songs and features Roland Gallery on lead classical guitar, Evelyn Nallen on Baroque recorder, and Amin Jan Sayed – who also engineered and produced the album – on bass and keyboards. I myself perform the vocals and play classical and acoustic guitar as well as mandolin on the recording.

1. A Different Train
2. My Heart is as Green
3. Song of the Unknown Soldier
4. Our Autumn Leaves
5. All of Your Daybreaks
6. Kingdoms of Heaven and Hell
7. The Falcon to the Falconer
8. You Don’t Even Know Me
9. Nostalgia
10. Saddle and Ride

CD with booklet containing full lyrics: £12:00 plus p&p + VAT
Also available on all streaming platforms.

The Road in Our Feet

Music | CD | £12

Recorded in London in 2005 ‘The Road in Our Feet’ comprises ten of my songs and features Roland Gallery on lead classical guitar, six-string acoustic guitar, twelve-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass guitar. I myself perform the vocals and play six-string acoustic guitar, twelve-string acoustic guitar, dobro, mandolin, cittern and alto recorder. The album was engineered by Kenneth Brake and produced by Roland Gallery.

1. Joan of Arc
2. Song of the Song
3. The Ballad of the Sad Café
4. The Cockleshell Song
5. All the Sad Young Men
6. The Beggar Song
7. Letter from the East
8. When Stan Met Ada
9. Paris Notebook
10. The Ballad of the Spy

CD with booklet containing full lyrics: £12:00 plus p&p + VAT

Exposure

Poetry | Book | £20

‘Exposure’ brings together forty of my poems written over a period of thirty years, matching these with forty photographs by photographers from around the world. Many of these poems had their first publication in various literary magazines and anthologies.

1. The Moments When We Meet
2. French Hotel Rooms
3. I Drive. You Count the Miles and Navigate
4. Unter den Linden
5. Love-Poem for February
6. For You
7. The Colour of Grief
8. In Bookshops Now
9. Prostitute and Madonna
10. Weave No Thoughts Round Me
11. Winter Coat
12. The World is Full of Broken Things
13. The Colour of Your Skin
14. The Language of the Hart and Turtle-Dove
15. Pizza for One
16. Timing
17. This Town Has Changed
18. Lavender
19. Description of an Infidelity
20. The Falcon to the Falconer
21. Touch
22. Colouring by Numbers
23. The Extent of His Love for Her
24. The Deer of my Heart
25. The Colours of My Heart
26. The Beauty of a Sailing-Craft
27. The Colour of Love
28. Song of the Mare
29. Primary Colours
30. How Much World do You Need?
31. And if I Dreamt it
32. Conquistador
33. One Day You’ll Come Back
34. One Morning I Awoke
35. What animal am I without you now?
36. Bedroom Orange
37. And Doors Will Open
38. Bury Your Dead
39. Caveat
40. Hopeless Love

Hardcover A4 landscape book, full-colour: £20:00 plus p&p

St Francis in the Slaughter-House and other poems

Poetry | CD | £10

‘St Francis in the Slaughter-House’ is an audiobook of thirty of my poems recited by myself and recorded in London in 2005. The CD is accompanied by a booklet with the full texts of all the poems, many of which first appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies.

1. Introduction
2. St. Francis in the Slaughter-House
3. The Falcon to the Falconer
4. The Ginkgo and the Sycamore
5. And Doors Will Open
6. The Annunciation
7. The Language of the Hart and Turtle-Dove
8. Apprentice and Master
9. Pietà
10. All Dons Should Look Like Bats
11. Song of the Mare
12. York Minster
13. The Perfume of Their Days
14. Song of the Harper
15. Wayside Shrine
16. Show Horses
17. Icons
18. This Town Has Changed
19. I Drive. You Count the Miles and Navigate
20. Cemetery Angel
21. The Soldier and the Soldier’s Son
22. German Hunting Party
23. Timing
24. Unfinished Cathedrals
25. The Great Days of the Railway
26. And if I Dreamt it
27. What Shall I Say to You Before You Die?
28. I am the Wind that Stirs the Thoughts of Sails
29. When I Compare Myself with Famous Men
30. The Faculty of Interpreting
31. The Moving Hand

CD with booklet containing full poem texts: £10:00 plus p&p + VAT