The author, drawing on a lifetime of experience, makes a direct appeal to our senses in his poetry. He writes of love, pain, sorrow, regret and deep longings. He uniquely combines this sensuality with humorous poetry and flash writing expressed in very short stories of truth and fiction. Dividing his time between Spain and Listowel Co. Kerry, he has drawn inspiration from both places and the title of this first collection, "Flying South", represents a Dubliner's dream of escaping an urban business environment for a life of creativity in a mystical south.