He has lived in Warrington since the ‘70s, taking early retirement in ’99 after nearly 30 years as a local government officer. In his poetry, to quote fellow genre poet J. C. Hartley, he “uses his environment as a jumping-off place into the future and deep space.” His work has appeared in over 150 magazines in the U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Italy and Romania, and in important genre anthologies. Since 1991 he has edited Handshake, the newsletter of the Eight Hand Gang (British network of science fiction poets).