Owed to a Nightingale

<p>Oliver Freeman invites readers to share the emotional and intellectual journey he has made as a poet from small beginnings when he was a child in London to his adult reflections on love life family and more - initially in England and for the last 40 years in Australia. </p><p>The book title honours his debt to John Keats and the romantic British poets not forgetting the poetry greats before and after those times - Blake Hopkins Donne Eliot and Graves. Oliver is sceptical about much post-modern poetry and is a traditionalist in the sense that he loves a good rhyme! </p><p>His subject matter is strongly influenced by love and loss but he has a deep interest in the way poetry can address social and worldly matters as well as the aching heart. </p>