Robbie Moffat

A wealthy young businessman temporarily penniless after leaving his credit cards and his briefcase in his towed-away car, becomes dependent on a young homeless girl.

This story is no romance. Its brutal, gruesome, horrible and totally indefensible. However, it is action, misadventure and things gone wrong, and as such, it is a story about mayhem and murder.

Volume 3 of Robbie Moffat's Poetic Works. Taking a break from poetry as a literary imperative, Moffat moved back to England in 2005 to pursue his film career. In this volume after some light opening four liners, we pick up the story in 2014 as he turns sixty and seriously commences writing poetry again. Once more in a perilous financial situation, he works through his difficulties by writing about it . He is no longer the young man impatient to be off on adventures, nor the man of his middle years with a settled life. He is an aging man who is starting to feel his age. This is what is captured in this volume along with the constant travelling that his film work demands. He records times and places that make you feel that you are there with him. There is a simplicity to these mature poems, the common day language of our age, the preoccupations that war and conflict have made us face daily while getting on with life. It brings us up to the end of 2024. Will there be more to come from Moffat as the years roll on? It appears he has every intention of continuing to add to his body of work.

Volume 1 of Robbie Moffat's Poetic Works starts with him hitch-hiking at the age of twenty as he sets out to go to India. It is a young, unpretentious and na ve beginning for a poet who goes on to compose poetry for the next fifty years. The technique improves, the subject matter becomes more interesting, the travels ever more extensive, his observations deeper, and his love life more exotic.Covering the years 1974 to 1986, the poetry reveals a young man trying to make his way in life working as a bus conductor, oil rig roustabout, fish factory skinner, cotton picker, house builder, taxi driver - anything and everything to make a living while struggling as a novelist who is trying to get published. The Far East, Africa, South America, USA and eventually to England to go to university to learn how to learn to write, all of this is documented in the poetry in this Volume. The results of his worldly education and the one he received at university can be plainly seen on the later pages of this book as Robbie Moffat learned new ways to talk to himself, and new ways to put down in his poetry for others to read many of the shortcomings he observed. It is a fascinating insight into the 70's and 80's generation.

Robbie Moffat's Poetic Works Volume 2 covers his leaving of Newcastle University and moving to Somerset to live in the Quantock Hills where Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote their Lyrical Ballads. Heavily influenced by the landscape, he returned to composing in the ballad form. However, love troubles were ever present, and he went off to Thailand where he began the Universal Being. Returning in debt, he took a job in a fish factory in north-west Iceland and continued with his poetry in between completing two novellas. Going back to Scotland to live, his next six years of poetry writing were prolific. Volume 2 contains some of his finest work, long descriptive poems of his travels juxtaposed with his childhood mixed with a blend of all things contemporary, marks these works as unique. In this period he fully develops his own distinct voice about what it is like to be a poet, novelist and playwright struggling to make a living like everyone else.

This novel is about two young punks travelling in South America in 1978. Their views on money, freedom, travelling, the getting away from reality, music, poetry, youth movements, hippies, punks and drugs. Its what some kids of their age do with their lives, before they get married, mortgaged and chained. Some of them don't make it that far.

COMPLETE POETIC WORKSThis book contains the entire output of Robbie Moffat's poetry from 1974 to present day.His work is infused with foreign places and a deep tenderness for his native Scotland. He is a poet of places, people, landscapes and nature. His work is peppered with emotion, humour and biting satire. He also expresses his inner struggles and his personal doubts about his own contribution to humanity. There is always optimism, a romantic point of view, belief that all will be well in the end. He has a magnetic personality, and an insatiable appetite for friendship, love and life. This book reveals to us that he is a poet for our times.

This story is about faith, ignorance, denial and revenge. In parts it is about unity, common purpose, and triumphalism. However, it is also about sadistic nature, power gone wrong, and retribution. For this kind of story is for an audience obsessed with religious wrong-doing, its hypocrisy and its secrets. If there is a moral, then it must be that the reader following the actions of our heroine understand why she is compelled to commit the same acts that have been perpetrated on her. Only after such deeds are done, when the meaning of compassion is fully understood, can our heroine change the course of her life and of those that she leads.

The updated Collected Poetry works of Robbie Moffat 1974-2019. More than seven hundred pages of poetry. Robbie Moffat is a writer and director of feature films but his poetry contains beauty and a flair for storytelling that puts himself in the spotlight. There are no actors to hide behind or to mask his real state of mind. In his poetry he is himself. Aged nineteen, he is a boy struggling to understand life, a young man coping with romance, and rejection - at sixty-five, an old man trying to make sense of everything that life throws at him. He has an exceptional insight into others. He has traveled the world and put what he has seen and experienced into a collection of poetry that is unique. There is no doubt that he is currently one of English language's most prolific poets.

Louis met Christine at a party and fell in love. He had always fancied himself as a writer, but from the moment he starts hanging out with Christine, he discovers she is a genius of invention and imagination. Inside Christine's head is a whole world she is managing to write down, yet none of it is commercial. She keeps everything hidden in a tea chest.

The sequel to The Loving, The Loving Child, and The Loving Few, a gone-world of yesteryear, when there was war and plague everywhere, when relationships were cut-short by death, illness and madness.

The Loving Few takes up where the story left us in The Loving and The Loving Child, in a gone-world of yesteryear, when there was war and plague everywhere, and relationships were cut-short by death, illness and madness.

The sequel to THE LOVING set in the wilds of Kerry and the meadows of Meath.

The Loving, set in another age, in a gone-world of yesteryear, when war and plague were everywhere, when relationships were cut-short by death, illness and madness.

Two young Brits and a Japanese adventurer are caught up in the outbreak in Juba of The Green Monkey disease in October 1976. (The killer virus later was recorded as the first outbreak of Ebola.) At the time, Sudan was still recovering from its seventeen-year civil war, Uganda was under the dictatorship of Idi Amin, the borders with Kenya were closed, and the area had been inaccessible for six months due to the rains.