Book description
Following in the footsteps of A Glass Half Full, Lone
Wolf and When Jack Sued Jill, Homeless In My Heart -
Felix Dennis's long-awaited new collection of verse - is 'the
story of a fool whose life was saved by poetry'.
Felix Dennis's life has been a long series of unlikely events:
incarceration by the British government in 1971 following the longest
conspiracy trial in British history; recording a chart single with
John Lennon; co-authoring Muhammad Ali's first biography; becoming one
of the richest individuals in Britain; launching one of the most
successful media brands in the world; falling into crack cocaine
addiction; beginning the task of planting a huge native broad-leaf
forest in the Heart of England; salvaging the wreckage of a life
dedicated to hedonism; and, lastly, and most surprisingly of all,
discovering that he could write the kind of poetry that people wanted
to read and to hear.
Now, with the publication of Homeless In My Heart, Felix
Dennis's extraordinary talents have come to fruition - from ironic
tales of darkness and savagery to hymns of praise for the glories of
nature. Homeless In My Heart fulfils the promise predicted by
the author and critic Tom Wolfe, who has called Dennis 'a 21st-century
Kipling [whose poetry] rollicks and rolls with rhyme, meter and melody'.
Felix Dennis was imprisoned in 1971 as co-editor of
OZ
magazine. After his acquittal on appeal, he founded his own magazine
publishing company in 1973 and made millions with the sale of
Personal Computer World
and
MacUser
in the mid-eighties. Today, Dennis Publishing remains a privately owned
company with headquarters in London and New York City. Titles include
The Week
,
Auto Express
,
Computer Shopper
and
Maxim
. The annual Sunday Times Rich List estimates that Felix Dennis is the
65th richest individual in the UK. Following a life-threatening illness,
his first collection of poetry,
A Glass Half Full,
was published in 2002. Two further collections followed in 2004 and
2006,
Lone Wolf
and
When Jack Sued Jill
. His other interests include planting trees and he divides his time
between homes in Warwickshire, London, New York, Connecticut and the
Caribbean island of Mustique.
