Having been pushed into music a child, I backed off at first from musical instruments. I went through school as the class joker, putting a smile and a silly act on to get over a number of family tragedies. When my childhood innocence was replaced by the sensibility of adulthood, more or less overnight in 1982, I caught the urge to write poetry with a message, and to express anger and relieve pain through creativity.

Then having moved some 3-4 years later into poetry performance, I realised that music performance was a more powerful way to express emotion, and present a piece of theatre for an audience to become attracted to. I therefore picked up the guitar and taught myself the basic chords, putting a few words to them along the way, and eventually taking on a small audience for the first time in 1986.

It’s through live performance, helped by a good dose of confidence and desire, that I now share some of my most personal experiences with my audiences as a songwriter. Not all; there are some things I remain very uncomfortable with, and I need to keep those to myself, at least for the time being.

And I must say that a Poyzer show is far from depressing or dull. Indeed, I work hard to ensure it is an uplifiting experience. It is through the sharing of human emotions that I open doors with my audiences, through which we share a varied batch of songs, a few laughs, a deep thought or two, the tickling of a memory, and I hope, a good time all round.

Have my experiences impacted my songwriting? Yes. They are my songwriting. They are my very soul, my fingerprint …"