WRITING
THE EYE OF THE HARE
As a filmmaker and editor, I’ve been telling other people’s stories for decades. Now I’ve written my own. “THE EYE OF THE HARE” is about family continuity, storytelling, and dexterity. As a two year old, I suffered severe burns to my hands. They ensure that I do things carefully. For me, meaning in life is best found through a slow attention to things. I find real significance in the woods and valleys near home, and the keen stare of a fox or a hare. My father, Oliver Heywood, was a landscape painter, and my love of nature comes from him.
To buy THE EYE OF THE HARE (£12.00 incl p+p) please email me with your name and postal address. I will reply with payment details and send you the book.
A SHIP IN FULL SAIL
A second autobiography, taking as its starting-point my notebooks and travel diaries, many unopened for decades. The book is a dialogue between the adrenaline of travel and a sense of belonging to a place, between the wide world and home.
This is still work in progress, so is free to download, on the understanding that I would really welcome any constructively critical feedback – via the contacts page.
SPRING HEAD
Bringing together fifty years of poetry - about travelling, landscape, The Black Mountains on the Welsh borders, Cappadocia in Central Turkey, and home in Gloucestershire.
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MOVING ON
A collection of poems, all written in the summer and autumn of 2016, about grandsons, picking four-leaf clovers, shaving, being very still in a wood near home, and many other things.
To buy MOVING ON (£7.00 incl p+p) please email me with your name and postal address. I will reply with payment details and send you the book.
FIFTY THROWS
Each page of this book is a word picture or puzzle. Available here for free. I hope you
enjoy them.