The seventy five poems are written like an artist painting a picture. Lots of stories of emotion and feeling. Some in named places. Some with romantic tones. Some will make the reader laugh, hopefully others will make them cry. A lot of poems are based on real life experiences. In some I have used my imagination to enhance the stories. I have tried to put my poems in some sort of order. The idea is that wherever you start reading it continues in an order which then finishes at the same place you started at From the start of the book the poems are about creativity. followed by a group of poems about loss of love and others about romance. Then my experiences while out walking. Followed by poems about my favourite county Cornwall. Then my first love which is trains. Two poems about a topic I feel strongly about and that is homelessness. Then my second love which is alcohol. Three poems about lock-down. Followed by poems about cowboys. Three poems about my family, but with a twist. Followed by poems about animals. As we get near the end I look back , with poems about the brain and the head. Followed by one about cancer and one about dilemma. Finishing with a poem about creativity when writing a novel. Then we start again

I chose this title for my second collection as it was January 1st and, while relaxing after a heavy night, as we were celebrating The BEGINNING AND END, that's what I decided to call my new book, and I divided it into three sections: THE BEGINNING, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE END. THE POEMS ARE ABOUT A JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE. I have had several poems published in the Lumen and Camden anthologies as well as in Forward poetry anthologies. I have performed in Berkshire, London, Suffolk, and the West Country. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it.

Most of the poems have been wrote to perform I perform under the name of BRIAN THE AMAZING POET As I do a lot of performing in Windsor and London Have read at St Ives festival and many others have had poems published in some anthologies Very proud to have three published in the Lumen and Camden anthology. All money raised went to the cold weather project for the homeless The poetry book was born when I looked out of the window of my flat I now live in Looking back at my mobile home in Winkfield and the two family homes and holidays Looking back by observing and using a bit off imagination,with humour and sadness With lots of twists