The Terms of His Surrender

These thirty-six poems are a meditation on the emotional undulations which accompany the progress of love. The blend of passion, doubt, rejection, yearning and joy is embedded in the cumulative uptake of these verses. Against a tableau of the persisting natural rhythms of the sea, the skirmish and proliferation living plants, the earth and the sky, the poet delves sharply into the rough and tumble work of romance, requited and not, attraction, fascination, projection and pain. The