was born in Ireland. He has worked as a lorry driver, library assistant, scaffolder and scrap metal dealer. He spent three months which included his 17th birthday in a psychiatric ward for drug dependence. He has also experienced the life of a military prisoner for nine months in Colchester and lived homeless for a short while on the streets of Dover, London and Cornwall.

Mike has been lead singer/frontman with the renowned Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band for 29 years. His experiences and recovery from alcoholism and addiction and subsequent employment as a key worker for the Kaleidoscope Programme were documented in the TV programmes ‘My Way’ broadcast in 2006, and Wales In The 90’s (2018).

Previous publications : Selected Poems ‘Overhearing The Incoherent’ (Grevatt and Grevatt, 1997).

As well as being a published songwriter, Mike’s poetry has been published in Acumen, Aji, Dream Catcher, Envoi, Eunoia Review, International Times, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Lyric, New Welsh Review, Orbis, Reach, Subterranean Blue, Tears in the Fence, etc. Mike also had a selection of poems published in The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, 2003). His ebook This Transmission was published in Sept. 2019 by The Argotist Online.