It has been quite a long time since my last blog post (more than 6 weeks!). There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important one is that I have been spending my time writing. I’m used to writing academic content, papers, conference papers, keynote speeches, chapter for books, peer reviewed journal articles. It’s all run-of-the-mill stuff to any academic and we tend to take it in our stride.

But lately, I have been going back to my roots. I used to write a lot of poetry, lyrics for songs, and short stories. That was before I became embroiled in Higher Education teaching and research. Now, as a semi-retired academic, I can take back a lot of my time to express my creativity again. It’s quite exciting and liberating actually.

To that end, I published two books of poetry this year and I have a third, to complete the trilogy planned for publication in December. If you fancy a read and some deeper thoughts (and maybe a laugh or two) about my views on life, the universe and just about everything else, the two books below are now available to purchase for a modest fee on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback formats.

Do take a look (and write a review if the moment grabs you!) – and let me know whether you think academic can write decent poetry.

The first book in the trilogy is called Ellipsis and the second is Sacred – the third book will be released in December with the provisional title of Childhood.

Expressing creativity by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.