Paul is a poet, teacher and gymnast who has worked for many years at Emerson College, Forest Row, Sussex. He travels widely, giving workshops in Creative Writing in a variety of contexts and speaking his poems. The Ground that Love Seeks and Slippery Characters (Five Seasons Press) are two gatherings of his poetry.

Working first as a teacher of children, and then of adults, his interests opened into a wider concern for the life of language in home, classroom, workplace and everyday relationships. His inspirational books, Sing Me the Creation and Words in Place (published by Hawthorn Press) address both the craft of writing and the freeing and schooling of imagination. In his joyful and interactive workshops  he helps poets and writers, even the most anxious, to develop their creative voice.

One of Paul’s urgent concerns is for children to meet living language and imagination in the classroom. He is a trained Steiner/Waldorf Teacher and his earlier work with young people informs what he does with those studying to be educators. He is often invited into schools to work with teachers, children and parents.

Therapists, social workers, group facilitators have benefited from his recognition that for words to be healing we need (through what the Buddha called a Path of Right Speech) to heal our own language, while environmentalists such as Margaret Colquhoun of the Life Science Seminar at Pishwanton have recognised his insights into the relationship between word and world to be a vital support in enlivening perception of the natural world.