In May 2017 Rebel Sun poetry collection is out with Parthian Books. Here’s the artwork from Andy Garside, I’m so pleased with it. Below is an excerpt from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran that inspired elements of the work.

Then a mason came forward and said, Speak to us of
Houses.

And he answered and said:

Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness
ere you build a house within the city walls.

For even as you have home-comings in your
twilight so has the wanderer in you, the ever-
distant and alone.

Your house is your larger body.

It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the
night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house
dream, and dreaming leave the city for grove or
hilltop?

Would that I could gather your houses into my
hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and
meadow.

Would the valleys were your streets, and the green
paths your alleys, that you might seek one another
through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of
the earth in your garments.

But these things are not yet to be.

In their fear your forefathers gathered you too near
together. And that fear shall endure a little longer.
A little longer shall your city walls separate your
hearths from your fields.

And tell me people of Orphalese, what have you in
these houses? And what is it you guard with
fastened doors?

Have you peace? The quiet urge that reveals your
power?

Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches
that span the summit of the mind?

Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things
fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountains?

Tell me, have you these in your houses?

Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort,
that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and
then becomes a host, and then a master?