Following the heart break of losing Sheryl, I immediately cut short my time in Israel and returned home to London. I had loved deeply, taken part in fascinating adventures. Seen wonderful sights, including sitting on the edge of a mountain watching the desert sun rise over the Dead Sea to burn the sky. For two days I […]
With my first poetry book being published ‘It’s a Funny Thing, Life’ I thought I would dedicate a blog to my experiences and inspiration in writing poetry. To be honest I find it easier than writing books, I have been doing it for longer and I have accrued many good reviews which always helps. As anyone […]
There is something I experienced in Israel which was both rare and extraordinary enough to merit a few words. My girlfriend Sheryl and I went to visit one of her old friends living in the ancient part of Jerusalem. We stayed within those holy walls for two days and two nights as the Israeli war raged on. […]
Today’s blog continues both my life story and how I ended up interested in writing. We take a little jump to when I was 18 years old. Having broken up with a long-term girlfriend, I travelled to an Israeli farm for six months, to be honest, mostly for sex, drugs and rock and roll! I had other reasons […]
The next step in my journey took me from song writing to poetry writing. I was 14 when I realised that I could write, I remember exactly the moment it happened. From I know not where, a sudden desire to write poetry began. I wrote what I considered to be a rather deep poem. I then […]
I thought I would continue with my story about growing up and getting into writing. My dissatisfied and frustrated life changed once I got my first guitar at the age of 13. I fell in love with the second-hand acoustic instrument from the off. Whereas others were learning the hits, I was most interested in writing my own songs. It quickly […]
2016 was the saddest and most difficult year of my life. It started well and busy as usual, mixing my business commitments with my ongoing burning desire to write. I had four able and loving sons and a happy marriage to a wonderful woman that just passed the forty-year mark. My oldest son is Victor Kloss. Over the last ten years we had […]
I was such a hyperactive and generally wild child, that at eight years old my mother decided to put me into a hospital for a week’s observation on my mental condition. Lucky for me it turned out to be a homoeopathic hospital! Although they tried to keep calm and humour me, I managed to drive the […]
I was born in London, specifically Clapton, back in 1954. The earlier spelling was ‘Clopton,’ which meant ‘farm on the hill’. I can assure you though, that by the time I was born, any farmland had long been built over. In my time, it was modest housing lived in by poor immigrants, of which my […]
I believe most children have an active and fertile imagination. Sometimes it gets squashed out of them by parents or the school system. Sometimes it just gets lost by the wayside, and for the lucky few it is encouraged and admired. Mine apparently started young, as my mother once told me how she would be […]
