novels:

A GUIDE TO THE ALLOTMENT



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GET A LIFE - 'Nina Edwards is a novelist in embryo, born to the profession', Fay Weldon

ASYLUM

BOY


stories:

A winner of the British Library short story prize for fiction, WRITER IN THE GARDEN 2005

VARIFOCALS, short story, in Notes from the Underground


TV scripts:

NOUGHTY ENGLAND, 2008

MIDSUMMER MADNESS, 2009

EALING VILLAGE, current




Sir Vagabond

By the splattered elder
A yellow slug locks its gum
To a plum from the gauge tree.
He turns his spine

Whose hair is fire smoke,
Earth and excrement.
A man of private
Jokes, whose punch lines fail.

It’s better when the leaves die,
When frost blacks buds
Or birds won’t fly.
As light falls

I am more disposed to him.
This gentleman perambulates
Into fine old chat. Fist
Like meat, he grips a swagger

Stick. I look him out
Through winter afternoons
Stuck up here. His fag ends
Red as Christmas.

How his teeth slide,
Suave on a bench
Where the parakeets
Remind him of India.

In snaggle line, salutes
Me with his sup-sup friends,
Free man
In Paradise.