I like poems in general that tell a story although I am willing to look at anything in verse because I enjoy it.  I enjooy listening to poetry read well and I like to read it for myself.  Reading other poet's work will inspire me to write my own most of the time although when I read Marrianne Moore I feel inadequate.  When I read Chaucer or Shakespeare I get interested and become deeply involved with it.

I love to write blank verse and rhyming couplets. 

With Island Artists I also enjoy performing and reading my own prose and verse.  There is a thrill about having an audience for your work who will respond often by asking for more if you get it right and heckle you if you don't.   As I said, I like poems that tell a story so one day I began a poem inspired by Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky  and the mad genius of Spike Milligan to emerge two years later with a sixty page epic poem with illustrations drawn by myself. 

The title is The Turval and the Grobble  ISBN 987-1-4452-0198-6 which I not only enjoyed writing but also enjoy reading.  When I read portions of it I wonder where on earth it came from recognising influences from my studies of Shakespeare's works and Chaucer's - a certain bawdiness combined with a desire to write a comical story that is a little bit saucy but at the same time is good verse.  I think I have done it right.