My Ebooks

Some of my writing is available in digital form for a variety of reasons: mainly because it is out of print, sometimes for convenience. My most recent ebook is The Conference of the Flies. I intend to publish more work in ths format soon.

 

Nature Mystic

My pamphlet of poetry published by Heaventree Press in 2008 with a wonderful portrait by Coventry artist Colin Dick on the cover.

Now available as an ebook, Price £3.99. Click the button below or visit https://payhip.com/b/L63bw

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Back Cover Blurb

The philosophy of these poems is in their shared ethos of Dharma and Druidry. Regardless of the originating nation, language or culture, these and other forms of mysticism are comparable attempts to open up that dimension of human experience that is beyond words.

Here Patterson, both a scientist and a spiritual practitioner, uses poetry, passionate and contemporary in its style and, further, with its own formal regulations and restrictions, as a medium-perhaps the best medium-to attempt expression of this unutterable experience. These poems are his journey, written during several years of exploring this hidden dimension in the natural world.
ISBN 978-1-906038-29-8

The Conference of the Flies

 

 
There is no greater sight
Than spring sun reflected
Upon the all-conquering 
Wings, limbs & gleaming hides
Of the Great Fly Nation!

There is no greater sound
In all the Earth
Than the hum, buzz & flutter
Of our million-fold 
Assembly!

We are fierce
Proud & strong
Ravenous & potent
Ancient,
Indecipherable. 

 

A new digital publication. The Conference of the Flies are discussing humanity. Do we exist? What are we? What should they do about us?

"The conference at the heart of this piece may be imaginary or fantastic, or it may be channelled and life-changing (not that these things are contradictory).  It is itself an ecology – an eco-telling, an eco-wording, a world-re-storing... We are also invited to contemplate our impact on those whose lives and lifeways are braided with ours."

From the foreword by Graham Harvey, a professor of religious studies at the Open University & author of Animism: Respecting the Living World, Hurst & Co. 2005.

For a short period you can download this text as a free ebook in pdf format here.