John Hughes: 4 books

Flowering Off the Chrome is a collection of symbolic poetic projections into the rural landscape. Removed from the urban sprawl, set during midsummer and narrated through a series of dramatic monologues, Hughes has created a rich sequence of see-sawing yarns about the comings and goings on a farm...

Death Rattle is an honest kaleidoscopic portrayal of the isolation, joy and abandonment that beats within the city’s restless heart. It is a trilogy comprising of poems, narratives, lyrics and aphorisms, where the duality of the city and the rural, which have historically been the idealized backcloth...

When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems is about how relationships form and dissolve in the most unlikely of places, how the old wars of the heart bemuse and confound. In the twilight world where nothing fails to sink below the horizon and everything depends on a fragile peace, people loose...

An Unusual Cremation in Bali is about a family cremation in Bali in 1996. This was no ordinary cremation ritual, as the family had to dig up four of their dead, some of whom had been buried for almost twenty years. During the days leading up to and including the cremation many fascinating rituals...