Hello and welcome to my website, thank you for taking the time to call in.

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am The Resident Poet. I run this website and I manage my music myself, there is no big operation going on here (if only). I would like to say this is my hobby but that wouldn’t be the truth, writing and recording music has been a constant in my life for just over 25 years at this point. The amount of time, effort and money that has gone into it I feel excludes it from the hobby category. I am sure my wife would agree, it’s much more than a hobby.

I didn’t realise writing a song, the lyrics and music, would be the easy part. You see all I need for that is a guitar and a quiet corner somewhere. When a guitar gets alone with my emotions, songs just seem to get born. The hard part is the next part, all the other instrumentation, then the recording. You see you have to acquire all the recording equipment, the hardware and the software. Then you have to go to NASA for 25 years to learn how to fly the sound desk with all its nobs and buttons. How to competently operate the millions of plugins - compressors, eq’s, reverbs and delays etc etc. No one told me I had to become a sound engineer, music producer and composer. Once all these boxes were ticked and I had graduated from the school of trial and error, I was ready to delete everything I had previously done and properly begin the journey. I think I have done that 4 times prior to this and here we are, 25 years later and at a point were I either think its good enough to release, or if I don’t my head will implode or explode or just fall off.

So who am I? Firstly and most importantly I am a child of God. I am a born again Christian. God is the inspiration in and for, all my music. I do this for Him, I believe this is me being obedient. To take the bare bones of the songs I believe He inspired me to write. To sacrifice the time and money to accumulate the equipment and knowledge. To ask talented friends to play on the songs. To release those songs into the world. To hope God speaks to someone somewhere through them. And if He doesn’t you may ask, what if no one listens? It doesn’t matter, God has spoken to me through the songs, and taught me so much on the 25 year journey. Maybe that was the whole point all along. And that would be enough. But just in case, I am going to leave them here so He can use them if He wants too.

Let me tell you about the songs, they all have a story. Sometimes a difficult, painful story. Something I am really struggling to understand something I am wrestling with God about. A question after an incident, or a thought about the future, or sometimes I am asking why? Why this and why that and what if? At other times I am amazed, trying to express and articulate spiritual reality, mind blown. There is suicide, cancer, car crashes and grief. Depression, drugs, alcohol and shame. Marriages, births, honeymoons and hotels. Rebirth, forgiveness, deliverance and hope. In a nutshell, real life. I have never sat down to write a worship song, I wouldn’t know how to start. I have never intentionally written a song based on a topic or for someone else. I experience something, I feel it very deeply, I reach for my guitar or sit at a piano and out it comes. I feel better. That has been the process for every song, they turn up whenever I least expect it. I play my guitar everyday in life, largely because like all humans I “feel” everyday in life. The guitar is just therapy and these songs the offspring from past therapy sessions. As I am typing this I am feeling I should apologise for the weight of some of these songs, they are heavy. But very, very real. “Lonely Man” for example was written within an hour of me returning home from the funeral of a friend who took his own life. I only share it in the hope someone feeling that pain can feel it and relate to it in the song, and hopefully cry out in the chorus to God for help.

I don’t view any of this stuff as entertainment, I am not an entertainer. I am soldier of Jesus Christ and this is ministry, spiritual warfare, something entirely different to entertainment. I expect to receive persecution and hatred as recompense for this work, not fame and fortune. My reward, if any, will be waiting for me in heaven.

If you’re reading this and you have got this far thank you for sticking with me. Let me be honest be with you, I would really love God to use these songs to touch someones life as they have touched mine. My genuine desire would be that I am not part of the equation. The Resonant Poet is just a nobody out there somewhere, imagine he doesn’t really exist in any real sense. He is nobody and everybody, we are all the same. If there is anything of value in any of this work the credit must go to God alone. The guy hiding behind the cap, scarf and glasses is just a vehicle that doesn’t want to be seen. He is there in person reluctantly being partially seen, but only to show God really does exist through His people. I am a real person, with a real story and everything that needs to be said can be found in the lyrics of the songs. I have nothing further to add, take the songs and leave me out of it..

May God richly bless you.

The Resonant Poet