The author was born in Liverpool, England, in 1944, the third child of a working-class family.
He attended a dock-side school before winning a place in a private grammar school. From there, he went to university and, eventually, to the Inns of Court where he became a barrister-at-law. The author is now an elderly man and employs in his poetry skills he acquired as a legal draftsman.
The work now respectfully offered to the reader is a collection of sonnets in classical form. The writer is neither a Romantic nor a Modernist, and much herein draws aspects of character from the poetry of the 18th century and from the language of the law, which aspects of character are now instinct...