Their heart is clarity, spoken. Why shouldn't the music lead and the heart follow-and mind be the wonder of their witness? This is a great poetry made of such common life, each word a step along the way"-Robert Creeley.

This collection of poems and songs soars over the fells, screeching truth, sex, humour, anger and love. With sharp vision Tom dissects his gut reaction and reminds us to appreciate the cool clear beauty of our situation - Paul McCartney.

The story begins with a marine soldier, Private Higgins, who was thought to have deserted his post during a sensitive English surveillance mission to claim ownership of Australia before any other 18th century superpower had the chance.

Poetry. In FIENDS FELL, Tom Pickard charts a single year out of a decade spent on a bare hilltop near the English-Scottish border, with the roaring wind as his only guide.

For Tom Pickard poetry is a free, and freeing, space.

" The collection contains correspondence with twelve British poets, their submission, proofs with corrections, and the final printed publication.