OCCUPIED SPACE takes us to wide-ranging landscapes. Of war-torn images to the traumas and hopes of fleeing refugees; of portrait pieces of ordinary lives; of people in pursuit of personal development, in pursuit of excellence; of people seeking a new life. The historical poems are of Cicero, Odysseus, and Timoleon. Of the longer poems, set in Australia, Rome, Athens, and Hamburg, optimism is the key ingredient, as is human warmth, love of life, concern for the environment, and belief in the miraculous and in the ‘invisible values of existence’.

OCCUPIED SPACE transports us from Calcutta to Hamburg; Athens to Melbourne; from the Nullarbor desert in Australia, to Leysin in Switzerland; from the town of Rydal in NSW to Aberdeen in Scotland; and from the war-torn Balkans to the Asia Minor Coast.

OCCUPIED SPACE is a wonderfully crafted book of poems, from a well-travelled writer.