Poet and editor of Ancient Heart Magazine, online at ancientheart.co.uk

Writing, travel, Celtica, Catholicism, art, poetry, film, history, mythology, full English breakfasts, filosophy, theology and mysticism, yellow paperclips, battling the ignorance of tiresome Eurocentric anti-Americanism, disliking the watery dark liquid that passes for coffee at Starbucks, England and the beautiful English language, comedy, maps, having quit smoking after twenty-four years of self-suffocation..

David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Radiohead, Massive Attack, The Smiths, The Cocteau Twins, The Wurzels, Dead Can Dance, Marvin Gaye, Depeche Mode..

The Long Goodbye, Badlands, Angel Heart

Quite a few things on BBC

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, Confessions by Aleister Crowley, Alice in Wonderland, some Letters by Lord Byron, Revelations by God, Groucho Marx' autobiography, My Life as a Genius by Salvador Dali, the Yellow Pages