A single author collection of poems and short stories about love, self-acceptance, forgiveness, same sex attraction, our aging bodies and their right to love.

My poetry and fiction often contains a transcendental element and goes beyond everyday reality to address themes such as free will and responsibility, man's destructive nature, the nature of time, and the difference between man and machine.

I like to write about the world but I also like to write about the human heart. So there is romantic and mystical writing as well as my personal response to the world we live in.

Gary Miles is the author of Where the Mind Wanders and Far Away Powers. He lives in a North Somerset village where he reads poetry at a local open mic night and swims in the Marine Lake at Clevedon.

Gary has wanted to be a writer since reading the Lord of the Rings as a young boy. Being partially sighed made childhood more challenging for Gary so books were important to him as they allowed him to escape into his own private universe.

At the beginning of the 90s, he moved to Hemel Hempstead where he was asked to write a play for the Boxmoor Arts Centre for Young People. The play contained ideas that he used later in his debut fantasy novella Where the Mind Wanders.