In the British and Asian Studies Association (BASA) Newsletter Arthur Torrington noted that "other aspects of his life and times are of equal interest [to the prolific musical career]" and the autobiography is "moving" and is "a very interesting read"
two collections of stories
Afterthoughts on the Mug's Game
who passed away on Saturday 9 August following complications after major heart surgery in Houston
translated by Jo Catling and others
The Land of Give and Take Laura Watkinson In the British and AsianIn The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrells second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the Churchs claims, but recognising that, in the end, nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life. There is morning and night to see through their eyes.