The Antipoet, by this time, were becoming quite popular and Paul found himself performing regularly at such festivals as Glastonbury, Camp Bestival, Lakeside, Rebellion, and both The Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe Festivals, among others, which led to him writing ‘The Edinburgh Fringe in a Nutshell’ in 2016’ for Burning Eye Books.

‘Does My Bass Look Big in This?’, Paul’s book on his ten years on the road with The Antipoet, then followed in 2018.  Between 2010 and 2025 The Antipoet have produced nine albums of beat poetry, all for Rrrants Recordings.

Having discovered the wonderful genre of Steampunk, and immediately falling in love with it, Paul then began his Steampunk book series, ‘The Periwinkle Perspective’, the first of which was published in 2020 by Caffeine Nights Publishing.

‘Lyrical Quibble and Quip’, a second collection of his published poetry, appeared in 2022, published by Black Pear Press.

In 2019, Paul was asked to write the poetry for Sunday Times best selling author, Carole Matthews’ book ‘Happiness for Beginners’ (he also wrote the theme tune) published by Little Brown. This was followed by her sequel ‘Christmas for Beginners’ 2021 which saw Paul’s poetry translated into many different languages and sold all over the world.

Paul’s passions include The BARDAID Initiative: putting independent poetry books into schools and communities; Doctor Who, Star Wars, steam trains, old English castles, vegetable growing; punk rock; animals; the countryside and his wife, Donna.

He is a committed anarchist, atheist and vegetarian. He’s also a keeper of cats, goats, chickens and Samantha, the tortoise. He continues to sponsor various donkeys, dogs, sheep, alpacas, trees, llamas and most recently, a herd of Reindeer.

Paul lives with Donna in Aston Clinton, Bucks, from where they run three telephone box libraries and a school library.