Vincent's Prayer

Inspired by the author’s childhood in Ireland and his life with his loving family, Vincent’s Prayer explores themes of childhood and youth, love and marriage, and illness and sanity.

Extract from Hawthorn to Ash:
Children are dreamers, and so are the aged
But a child dreams in colour, the old dream in rage
Oh, I was a dreamer when I was a boy
When I lived in a land of magic and joy
Where the sun would come up, or go down in a flash!
Where I ran through the trees
From Hawthorn to Ash!
Vincent’s Prayer is a startlingly personal collection of poems that seeks to bring hope and enjoyment to the reader. The poems will resonate with not only poetry lovers but with anyone who wishes to look back on a life well lived and reminisce on their own childhood, youth and health.