Poetry Collection

My new collection, All Revolutions Begin This Way, is published by Alien Buddha Press. The release date is the 19th of February 2023.

An opportunity not to miss

Emboldened by the submissions open window, I sent the collection to the editor of ABP. Within three
days he returned to me with a resounding ‘Yes!’ and moved like the wind. Aptly nicknamed Red, the
editor made the process a joyful and easy experience. Communications ping-ponged back and forth,
and among the emails, he had sent six book cover suggestions. After trawling through hundreds of my
photographs or artworks, I preferred one of his suggestions and settled on the image for the book cover.
It perfectly evokes the poem of the book’s title.

All Revolutions had already existed in a different version when I had sent it to a poetry competition
back in 2022, which garnered ‘highly commended’ from among the shortlisted poets. I was optimistic it
would come up trumps soon enough. After adding new poems, quite a few fresh from the creative
forge, carefully collating and rearranging the collection to strengthen the story telling, I sent it and left
it in the lap of the gods.

The synopsis

“All Revolutions Begin This Way is a journey of the imagination through past and future landscapes,
featuring the Author’s childhood home in the Waikato region of New Zealand’s North Island. Many
poems are reminiscences and spiritual experiences—a suite of poems centres on an abandoned mining
town, Waiorongomai, with sweeping explorations of history and myth. The journey becomes more
introverted and existential in mood, beginning with the title poem as a curtain raiser. Reflective and
quietly defiant, this collection is a distillation of observations and joyful affirmation of the sacredness
of individuality.”

Signed copies of the the Collection are available to purchase via my contact page.

All Revolutions is also available from Amazon.