this fragile tent

I like to write. It tends to be what I do at rest.

For many years I have written poetry. I suppose this started with a desire to be the new Bob Dylan, or perhaps the next Bruce Cockburn! Eventually the music found its natural last discord, but the writing continued.

Some of my writing has been published in a few magazines and periodicals.

I have published two books of poetry, both available from www.proost.co.uk.

Firstly, ‘Listing’-

 

Here is the Proost blurb from Jonny Baker;

Listing  is a little gem, a surprise that came Proost’s way over the horizon from Chris Goan. He loves crafting words, playing with words, chewing over words, creating and re-creating worlds with words. His poems and meditations are a delight, spinning off from and opening up new takes on familiar verses of ancient wisdom from the scriptures. It’s the second book from Chris on proost. The first is the wonderful meditation he wrote to go along with Si Smith’s images of Christ’s journey into the wilderness ‘40’. The books is available as both hard copy or to download as pdf.

Secondly. ‘Ten Thousand Places’, a book of poetry written over a ten year period-

This book takes some broad themes (Humanity, Family, Community, Faith, Wilderness) and looks for the deeper things of grace in the mix…

 

There is also a collection of prose and poetry in this book…

available on this link; http://www.lulu.com/content/1116281

I have also collaborated in the creation of another book with Illustrator Simon Smith called 40.

This is a book of images and meditations written around the theme of Jesus in the wilderness. I originally wrote the book as a script for a worship event.

This book is available from Proost- www.proost.co.uk

Some samples of Simon’s images…