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It's an opportunity a journalist and ex-boxer with a complicated personal life can't turn down-joining the camp of the world title challenger, Ricky Mallon, in the run-up to the championship fight. For Billy Piers it's more than work, it's an escape from Karen, loving and beautiful but disturbed, and unaware of what he's going through-that he's in love with someone else, someone who can't decide who she's in love with at all.Set in the urban w...

I'm there when it gets dark to kill you if I can..."The Bogey Man's sinister chant used to scare the wits out of Gary Scott when he was a five-year-old, growing up in the worst part of Glasgow. But now, nearly twenty years later, he's an experienced and, he likes to think, hard-nosed journalist. He's far too preoccupied with real life in all its seedy variety to worry about imaginary horrors. So why does he keep being drawn back to the dark cl...

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No, this book doesn't advocate suicide-it teaches something that takes a lot more courage: that we are always enlightened, and must take responsibility for realizing our enlightenment. It invites us to meet life on its own terms, wherever we are, whoever we are, right now, killing our false sense of self by seeing through it to our true nature.This is Zen for real life, in the world of relationships, jobs, dirty dishes, teacups and toilets. Ze...

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Food on the plate, tea in the cup -say your thanks.Say it to the sunlight, say it to the rain. Barry Graham's second book of poetry may be read as a collection of haiku and tanka, or as one long Zen poem.

Barry Graham's terse, resonant poems of urban Zen have been internationally published in anthologies and magazines, and broadcast on BBC radio. This, however, is the first book-length collection of his poetry. This volume brings together his best poems of two decades, ranging from haiku and tanka to love poems and murder ballads.