Nat Hall
Sandwick, Shetland

E-mail Address: natanddave@btopenworld.com
Please include the word 'POETRY' in the subject line of any email you send.

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Why write poetry, Poet?

I write to cleanse my soul. To put into words pain, fear, anger, sorrow and laughter - all those human emotions.

How did you get started writing poetry?

Until today, I have led a rather nomadic life, from Normandy to Provence, from Hampshire to Shetland. On the way, I survived a horrific car crash in South Oxfordshire. Quite a milestone it proved to be! Whereas my memory deleted this accident permanently, I started to feel the urge to express myself - thus beginning to "play" with words and rhymes… in English with "My Book of Dreams" and in French with "Le Coeur Caché" ("Hidden Heart").

Who were your influences?

The power of imagination remains a fantastic ally when one feels sad and/or lonely. Inspiration floats in the air. It is everywhere: in the sky, on the sea, in people's beauty, or in one's travels! While my child's eyes were dreaming on the horizon line, my adult ones fell in Love with Scotland - the Highlands and Islands: so much we share. Here I feel "at home" at last, amidst new friends, notably within the South Mainland Writers Group . … to celebrate life.

I dedicate my work to David, Taina, Kate, my family and my masters, as well as to Alex Cluness, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Baudelaire.

Publications in the Pipeline.

My Book Of Dreams undertakes this formidable voyage to the centre of "my" Earth: a collection of verse in which, you - the adventurous reader - will be transported through the nebulae of my world… from the depths of my soul to those of the oceans - via a myriad of amazing places. Reader, my dear friend… thou shall become the Arctic Tern!

Examples of poetry.

A Cry For Peace   A Sea of Senses   African Sky   A Tale of Two Harbours   At The Jobcentre   Ballerina of the Wood   Birdwatching   Blue Regrets   Bombs Bear no Names   Breathing Asleep   Cardboard Boxes for Fallujah   Chinoiseries   Clair de Lune   Con-nec-ted!   Cowboys Beware   Crashed and Burnt   Crying to the Spirits   Deliverance   Disposable Society   Dragons' Breath   Drinking the Water from your Lips   Earth Pulse   Earthly Thoughts (Part One: Prelude)   Earthly Thoughts (Part Two: The Sequel)   Epitaph for a Monkey   Fantasy Island   Fast Love   First Love   Feeling You, Feeling Me   Flying into the Stratosphere   Ghosts   Havra   He Bought the Birds to Set Them Free   Highland Pipes   Holy City of Bethlehem   Horizons   If I Were You   In Memoriam   Inside the Prism   Inside the Wave   Iraq Latest   Island Soul   I want...   Kingdom of the Isles   Kissing the Clouds   Leir-vík, my Boreal Eden   Life Whispers   Lokkaminnie's Oo   Lord of my Fears   Lost in the Mist of Loch Linnhe

Love and Blood   Mirage   Mirrors of Love   Morning Call   Morning Light   My Great Grand Mother's Hands   My Heart Beats Fast in the Highlands   My Song For Jonathan   My Soul Is in Shetland   My Wealth is My Freedom   Night   Northern Roost   One Man One Dream   On the Tip of my Nose   On the Trail of the Erne   Out on My Cloud   Papillon de Nuit   Radio Silence   Requiem for a Trombone   Sanctuary of Life   Sea Rockets   Sea-Spray Hunter   Sitting on the Edge of my Lips   Sky High   Song of Starlings   Spring Has Arrived!   Still Frame   Storm   Strings   Tale from the Waterfront   Tale of a Thistle   Talking Drums   Thalassa   The Chemist's Lab   The Dream Catcher   The Edge of the Frozen Sea   The Samurai   The World's Crying   Through That Chip   Time   Travel With The Wind   Torrential Wrath   Totem Bird   Verse for Love   Walking Together   When the Moon Smiles   White World   Wild Waves   Wings   World Gardens   You Are the Light of My Tunnel