Attitudes to Sussex
Formats: Paperback
Ages: 18+
An 80 page volume, 11x18cm, printed on high quality card and paper, thread-bound, illustrated with drawings by Karen Grace; entirely designed, produced and published by the author. The book is a second, revised edition, a third and further revised edition of which is planned for publication later in 2026. The book is a collection of poems observing and describing a variety of specific locations, landscapes, architecture, events, institutions and people of Sussex, by a writer with a life-long background there. The forms range from classical scan and rhyme to free verse, and the tone varies from exuberant or comical to sober or tentative. The 'attitudes' of the title are meant to mean the conveyance of thoughts and sentiments of the poet to the subject matter, and implicit poses, conscious or unconscious, thereby struck. Composed in generally lucid, transparent language, the tone is nevertheless often wistful and allusive. However, the overall attitude to the subject is balanced between romantic and unsentimental, personal yet circumspect.
Items in the book have been anthologised, inter alia, in David Arscott's Sussex Bedside Book and newsletters of the Ramblers Association Sussex Area. In 2007 the poet was filmed on the South Downs reading from the book for a feature in the Meridian ITV South-East Regional News.









