He has completed three and a half poetry collections, one of them being both diminutive and collaborative. The most recent, full-sized collection is “A Whoop Above the Dust”, September 2010. When things refuse to rhyme, he writes prose – usually short, but including a couple of novel-length stories, The Lucky Krab and The Last Munro – the latter for children. He is not yet quite reconciled to the fact that the quickest way to the truth is to make stuff up. But he’s slowly getting there. In his day job, he designs heavy-duty diesel engines for ships and trains. The engines are considerably larger than the poems.