The Wild Knight and Other Poems

This volume opens with a bold, knight‑like voice that wrestles with the restless energy of creation, mixing mythic grandeur with a hint of self‑deprecating humor. The poems wander through imagined landscapes where stars thirst and ancient powers clash, setting a tone of restless curiosity. Readers are invited to taste the clash between reverent awe and playful irreverence.

Later sections drift into surreal tableaux—a unborn child dreaming of impossible geography, a solitary lover conversing with the loneliness of the divine, and a skeletal narrator finding comedy among flowers. The language swings from vivid colour metaphors to stark, almost prophetic declarations, offering both comfort and disquiet. These pieces explore longing, exile, and the paradox of beauty within ruin.

Interspersed throughout are brief meditations on contentment, sin, and the fleeting nature of memory, each wrapped in precise rhyme and unexpected turns of phrase. The collection feels like a wandering minstrel’s notebook, ever shifting between solemn hymn and mischievous jape. Listeners will find a rich tapestry of Victorian‑era imagination rendered in a voice that feels surprisingly fresh today.