Love, life and death has used suno to render a collection of my poetry written over the last 25 years to a variety of voices and music.

Using my original lyrics and words, these creations and other downloads on this page are available free.  If you enjoy them I encourage you to make a donation to the organization Plenna that I founded in 2023.

Extracts

Coincé - audio

Full stop - audio

Tongues, dogs and metaphysics is also on suno and is another selection of the last 25 years of my poetry, accompanying Love, life and death; a longer collection that is a little weirder, cruder, more philosophical, and more political.

Extracts

Hidden - audio

If I - audio

A deluge of wonders, my second poetry anthology, contains two extended reflections: on migration (in space and time and more), and the pervasive influence of computer and mobile technology on our lives.  Among further existential musings on life and the universe, a third major theme considers the conversations that we have with others and ourselves.  

Extracts

Goldfish

Rendered with the website suno:

Extended poem: A Deluge of wonders

Extended poem: Move

Vanessa Jiminez Gabb, poet, comments:

"the freedom and range of tone – the whimsical, the reverent/irreverent, the deeply meditative and the extemporaneous – and the subjects with which the manuscript is preoccupied: love and existence, the urgency of the sociopolitical, the way the global informs the intimate. The collection feels both contemporary and enduring, much of which is owed to the astute observations of our world and how the author has moved through it, making magic of the mundane, as well as the fun had with / the possibilities explored through the constraint of rhyme.”

Extracts

On being a meringue - audio

When - audio

Meet Tony, an ordinary man on an ordinary flight. Well... Not quite. 

When his plane is hijacked, Tony swallows an archangel’s eyelash. Now part-angel, he enters Angeland. Passing through Heaven and the Realm of the White Mountain, he embarks on an incredible adventure. But Tony is never far from earthly influences.

To avoid disaster on an epic scale, seven archangels assemble at their Council. Together they try a variety of ideas to remove the eyelash, but will any prove a success?

Extract: first three chapters

Working in bureaucracies provides bountiful material for satire, normally coupled with a supply of colleagues willing to send themselves up by participating in drama.  I've written, directed and acted in a range of plays and songs, particularly in the UN.

Extracts: songs with multiple music & voices, rendered with suno:

Byu rok ruh see

I was on the organizing committee of this initiative in UNFPA from 2020-2023, set up during the COVID-19 epidemic while everyone was social distancing, which uses art in all forms to promote diversity and inclusion.