The Demolition Block Party

About the Book

The Demolition Block Party is about four ex-junkies and alcoholics—Grant, Lefty, Bob, and Sue—who are existing through their dire social circumstances, having been made to survive and live on benefits and handouts in the most desperate of situations whilst in a somewhat vain and eager attempt to try to prove and justify their reasons for living upon a council estate with no real prospects of a certain future. Then they find themselves in the vain hope of reaching a redemptive point of deliverance through their testimonials as assessed by Mr. Selby, along with their dealings with the local council and social services, only for them to struggle in maintaining their well-being and to reach a positive conclusion or outcome by simply expressing themselves through the trials of their haphazard reality and lifestyle and for their point of view to be realized with some kind of recognition and reconciliation back to humanity. Also, the council property that they all inhabit and dwell within this derelict community is under threat from being demolished, which is challenging for their unique friendship and experiences together as they come to understand and realize that if they do not change by themselves, then circumstances beyond their control may force change upon them. As Lefty, Bob, and Sue all look up to Grant as being the main source of leadership amongst their peer group, it is left to Grant to figure a way out of this mess and to somehow find the meaning of providence.

About the Author

As a writer and a poet and as an artist and performer, I have always felt the need to convey my thoughts through the artistic expression of words and music and even through the unspoken medium of movement and motion, as much as it is up to the creativity of a writer, which is for me to capture or to record these moments as they unfold and take shape revealing their naked truths in the purest of forms of their suggestions and clues toward a revelation unknowingly becoming attuned and responsive to the reciprocal mind. As I have come to learn and engage in the process of the languages and the words, also each independently has its own hidden inner depth when spoken, or as when heard or as when read, as each processed word proceeds one after the other, building a foundation and creating layer upon layer until its volume is felt. Whether I choose to promote this idea upon a line of questioning or examining or analyzing, a stand of truth by capturing a piece of reality or whether I am entranced by the enchantment of something more sublime like a mystery or a fantasy is even somewhat inspirational to me as to how my thoughts of expression and energy are channeled through such a medium and a basic quality in challenging my ability to write paragraph after paragraph and page after page until, ordinarily, the mundane of perfection of the subjective object is met and begins to excite me. As writing is also very much an internal journey toward understanding the inner self and examination of the reflective world that surrounds us all insomuch that we are constantly redefining and readjusting to all that is apparently so and open to see. But as to whether we can learn to accept through interpretation of all that is extended before us, it is also to glance in a mirror and to attempt to recognize if all is as it appears to be.