LOOKING FOR A LEFT I TURN TOO SOON AND STOP DEAD CREMATORIUM Every time I go to Rhydyfelin I always end up at the Crem. It doesn’t matter what part, Shakespeare or Shelley, I still end up in that bleak car park staring at mortality. I wonder if hearses have the same but converse […]
Read More...Feeling Good Haiku in Soar
A SEE THROUGH CHAPEL NOT SUNBEAMS THROUGH BROKEN GLASS A NEW TRANSPARENCY Feeling good should be one of those prerequisites of everyday life like having warm clothes, a local rugby team and a conservatory. Actually I’m lying, as only one of those is essential, one is a distant memory, and the other is […]
Read More...Dinas Haiku
FLATS WITH A VIEW LOOKING UP TO THE BALCONY I TWIG THE VIEW IS ME I regularly ride through Dinas on my bike. Like all cyclists I’ve learnt to expect the unexpected. Not because I’m in Dinas but because I’m a cyclist and people like to surprise us with friendly abuse and other missiles. Approaching […]
Read More...Haiku Challenge
VALLEYS KIDS CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER THE HAIKU CHALLENGE Watching my tan fade She tells me Christmas is coming I turn white overnight. Summer in the Valleys Kids office in Penygraig and a dreamy conundrum hangs languidly in the air. Shall we ask Larry to pen the Christmas newsletter, or shall we ask a turkey to […]
Read More...Excerpt: Cradle to the Grave
CRADLE TO THE GRAVE LAURA at the computer. QUILLER comes in. LAURA Gillespie. I didn’t expect you so early. How was your sort of date? QUILLER She didn’t turn up. LAURA Swinging around. I’m sorry I thought you were – I don’t think you should […]
Read More...Art imitating Life imitating Art
In the year 2000 my wife gave me the mother and father of all birthday presents: L’etape du Tour, a stage of the Tour de France for amateur cyclists. It was a memorable event which gave me the privilege of meeting one of Wales’ greatest cycling champions, Steve Edwards, and which BBC Wales XL series recorded […]
Read More...South Africa , Wales – Mzansi Cymru
Community development charity, Valleys Kids, gave me the experience of a lifetime and a challenge that became a pinnacle of Alpine proportions. Firstly as a writer, to create a piece with a cast of hundreds that would span two countries, Wales and South Africa, and would fill my every waking moment for four years. […]
Read More...Schools & Education
The Writer as Teacher As a complimentary element to my plays and also a completely independent strand, I can also offer and deliver a whole range of classes and courses based around creative writing and performance for schools and colleges. I have experience of working in schools with pupils from 8 to 18 covering the […]
Read More...About Me
For the forty years that constitutes my adult life I have been writing plays, riding bikes and trying to cook the perfect Sunday dinner. I am not sure which has provided the more joy and heartache but somehow writing plays has become my career though I sometimes wonder whether one of the other pursuits may […]
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