A collection of previously unpublished poems, these twenty-one fragments are a kind of retrospective, a looking back to a different time, a different life, a different me...
 
Written in my late twenties, early thirties, before fatherhood and the awareness of self that comes with age, they are poems representing a life in search of direction, voice and, yes, love...
 
As is my quirky way, and with the freedom of increasing years, I have played with the visual design of the poems as they appear on the page. It's nothing too radical, but there are non-traditional layouts, photo images and digital art in the collection. Whether it works or not is for you to decide!
 
This is the first of two collections in my series, Past, covering poems written between 1998 and 2004.