Hello, this is me before i had a beard.
I was born in Canberra and grew up around there and on a farm over the border in Burra, New South Wales. When school finished i went off travelling through India and Europe and ended up living in London for quite a few years working in theatres and idling and writing songs and getting married. Then i came back here back to the farm and brought up a family and that’s where i still am. I have kept this blog going for about 20+ years now.
I started this site mainly as a place to practice my html/php and publish my poems and write essays but I also write and record songs now, as “Muletonic” … for more about all that, head over to my music bio and discography.
I have self- published several poem collections over the years including three through lulu: Poison Bomb (2011), Curlicues (2015, which is a collection of poems from earlier unpublished pamphlets and notebooks), and Bleeding Nose Pose (2017 but revised in 2021). My more recent poems online are mostly found on my other blog, Wardrobe in the Cupboard, the older ones are here in the poem cupboard.
It was a long time ago when I first created this website ‘forkword’, and I can’t really agree with everything I have thought up and written here over the years. But please feel free to wander about and enjoy.