Michael takes his seat for the regular Saturday afternoon matinee performance by Salcombe’s estuary orchestra. Come rain or shine, they never cancel.
The funeral poem website was first established in the hope that one of Michael Ashby's loss poems would resonate with, and help, someone, somewhere, at the saddest of times.
This website has grown, and has now touched lives in 172 countries around the globe.
Michael is fortunate to live in South West England on the spectacular Devon coastline. Some nights he is awoken by the sounds of an argument between the sea and the local pebble beach coming in through his bedroom window. He's not sure who starts it, but they always settle in the end.
He spends part of each day gazing out to sea, waiting for his next poem to appear on the horizon.