The author, the middle of three brothers, was born in Kent in 1943. His family immigrated to Canada after the War and his childhood was spent in Toronto. He currently lives in Scotland where he works for the City of Edinburgh Council. These poems were written between 1968, when he was studying Theology at King's College, London, and 1983. What do I have to give? Is it just that I must live On the same tightrope Of despair and hope, Between heaven and hell, And know the distance, And must keep my balance, Else where I'll fall no one can tell?