Rhymes (And Other Sorts of Poetry) and Reasons

The poems in this collection fall into four categories: Snapshots, Chile, Spiritual Stirrings and Nature. What they have in common is that they are born out of the author’s lived experience: sights seen or moments lived, holidays in Chile, a country in which he lived for 22 years, visits to churches and other holy places, and the Cumbrian countryside in which he now lives. Every poem in the collection is preceded by a brief comment on the circumstances in which it came to be written. This is what gave rise to the title.