Peter Neary-Chaplin

I'm a bit of a mongrel, to tell the truth. At various times throughout a variegated, not to say chequered career, I have been a Cambridge open scholar, warehouseman, cocktail barman, project manager, roadie, copywriter, amateur actor, bus driver, timeshare hawker (fail), publisher, advertising salesman, spiritual counsellor, musician, internet marketer, volunteer hospice chaplain, interfaith minister, worship leader, information developer and IT trainer, pub manager, freelance journalist, husband (fail), kibbutznik and farm labourer, and I remain, in addition to some of these, a proud Dad, a film lover, wine-bibber, initiated man, amateur theologian (fail), free-thinker, wedding and funeral celebrant, author and poet, who takes at face value the biblical example of hanging around with publicans and sinners.

I've been a writer all my life, and now I'm publishing my own books instead of other people's, which feels good. I love the contemplative and creative side of spirituality, as well as wine, films, earthy jokes, journalling, good books, blogging, playing music on licensed premises, the creativity of business, the Celtic soul, the male spiritual journey and the natural world. For many of us, whatever we like to call 'God' is found more easily outside the four walls of any orthodoxy or institution. Just like in the photo...

My Mother is an Old Elephant was my first collection of verse, and I've just published my second collection, Steady, Pilgrim on Kindle.