Hub

HUB: a collection of five new symphonic long poems previously unpublished. The title poem is about a man in a wheelchair by the side of a road who gets a fleeting glimpse of a girl in the hub cap of a car. He becomes obsessed with her and tries to find her. The other four poems include BOOK - inspired by the author's own published epic novel RED OVER BLUE, a religious/political mystery thriller and story of forbidden love and its brutal consequences which he wrote after two years living and teaching English in Sudan. BOOK is written from the viewpoint of the Muslim girl who was a main protagonist in RED OVER BLUE, forty years after the English teacher who was also a central character and whom she inspired to write RED OVER BLUE returned to England and she believes has died.