Tall tales, biography, old friends, and stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things
… one thing is for certain: we all love a good story. As they say in Arabic, and as is said in all languages in all times and places, “ka-n ya ma ka-n bil ‘adim izzama-n wa sa-lifi al aSri wa la-wa-n”‘ or, “there was, oh yes, there was, in the oldest of days and ages and times”. And the taller the story, the more unlikely the yarn, the better we appreciate it. During the closing scenes of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the journalist says: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”. From: All along the long white road
Song of Myself
- Back in the Day – my journey, in song and poetry
- A Window on a Gone World – London days
- Song of the Rand – my hitchhiking days
- The Boys of Wexford – memory and memoir
- Encounters with Enoch
- Tanks for the memory – how Brezhnev changed my life
- Something about London
- The Country Life
Eulogies
- John Cleverley’s Long March
- A Parting Glass – farewell to an old friend
- Dermott’s Last Ride
- Yuri The Storyteller
- Farewell to a Tarkeeth Tiger
Stories
- Roman Holiday – The Perils of a Poet in Nero’s Rome
- Lilith – a poem of The Fall by Meniscus Diabetes
- No Bull – beefy ballads
- Small Stories – A Tale of Twin Pines
- Small Stories – the schools of the Tarkeeth
- Small Stories – Crossing the South Arm
- The Monarch of the Sea
- The Odyssey of Assid Corban
- No Going Home – the refugee’s journey (1)
- Hejira – the refugee’s journey (2)
- Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land – a poet’s memorial to a forgotten crime
