He was innate around Lancashire, & brought higher primarily inside Hong Kong, which he left in 1964.

His 1998 novel Industry Of Persons was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Works

Paper Pennies & More Verse form (1967) Supplication to the Himalayas. The Verse form & Sketch (1968) In the Yenan Caves (1969) The Sifting of Silence (1971) (verse form) Pilgrims & Petitions (1971) A Crying Embers (1971) (verse form) On the Dying of Archdeacon Broix (1971) James Elroy Flecker, Unpublished Poems & Drafts (1971) (editor) Whiten (1971) Inside Her Mitts (1973) (verse form) Teller: 4 Verse form (1973) Brevities (1974) (verse form) Mitts Twining Grasses (1974) (verse form) Spawning A Os (1974) Yogh (1974) (verse form) Snath (1975) ''2 Boys & the Girl, Swimming within the God's acre (1975) (verse form) Stalks of Jade: Renderings of early Chinese titillating verse (1976) Horse & Rider, the verse form (1976) A Book of Cats (1977) (editor by owning George MacBeth) Extending Upon a Kingdom (1977) Folio/Work around Progress. Verse form (1977) (broadside anthology, editor by having John Stathatos) A Knotting Sequence (1977) A Anxious (1978) the Globe Human Dreams of a Sour Sod (1978) Winter's Nighttime: Knotting (1979) Decadal: Ten Years of Sceptre Click (1979) Calling by owning Hooter (1979) (verse form) A Bad Track (1980) (novel) Devil's Wine (1980) (verse form) Bismarck (1980) British Writing Now (1981) (editor) A Cnot Dialogues (1981) Meeting a Snowy Northerly Again (1982) (verse form) Wanting to find a Rainbow Sign: Verse form of America (1983) Denary: Verse form for Frances Horovitz (1983) (editor) Travelling Through the Senses: The Survey of the Poetry of George MacBeth (1983) Contemporary British & Northward Western Verse (1984) (editor) British Poetry 1964 to 1984: Camping through the barricades (1985) Hiroshima Joe (1985) (novel) Killing a Moscs (1985) Under a Sea (Impressions) (1985) Aleister Crowley: Selected Verse form (1986) Carpet Sahib, The Life of Jim Corbett (1986) (life of the shikari) Hundred & 1 Dalmatians (1987) (radio dramatisation of the Dodie Smith book) A Jade Marquee (1987) Melanise Chameleon (1988) Dreaming of Samrkand (1989) (novel) The Super Personal Gentleman (1990) (novel) Western Dreams. The Verse form (1992) (broadside) Rhino Road: A Black & White Rhinoceros of Africa (1992) A Humble Disciple (1992) (novel) Life Confronted (1993) A Iron-tree (1993) Toys of Glass (1995) Adrift In The Oceans Of Mercy (1996) War Mutt (1996) (novel) Opium: The History (1996) Doctor & the Detective - a Life history of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1997) Music on the Bamboo Radio (1997) A Industry of Mortals (1998) (novel) Magick Life: The Life history of Aleister Crowley (2000) A Dragon Syndicates: A Spherical Phenomenon of the Triads (2000) PoW (2000) Panther (2001) Islands Of Silence (2002) (novel) Doctor Illuminatus (2003) (fantasy fiction) Cannabis: The History (2003) Gweilo : memories of the Hong Kong childhood (2004) Midnight Saboteur (2004) Soul Stealer'' (2004)