In recent years, too many funerals, too many of these poems for the dead.  Two of these are dedicated to old and valued friends, and one to my father.

Click on the link in the list below to read the specified piece.

The Magician

for Martin Smith, an old friend with whom I worked teaching ciomputer science in further education.

The Inventor of Music

for Roger Holder, with whom I shared a deep appreciation of music, and whose musical taste I valued and shared for several decades.

My Father's Places

for my father, Dennis Ferguson, a protestant minister for most of his life.  This poem is perhaps more about mu complicated relationship wirh him than about the man himself, but then - fathers and sons, what can you do?