Dreams & Dreads: Promotional Information: Poetry can be a hobby for all rather than being the preserve of academia. This book contains 85 easy to read poems aimed at making poetry an enjoyable adventure. They will take the reader on a jolly ride of exploration and discovery in poetry. Those who are not used to poetry will find this volume a good basis for cultivating love for it. Topics covered range from the pleasant (dreams) to the unpleasant (dreads). They are all issues of relevance in society, vis-A-vis love, crime, nature, death, youth and aging, religion and others. A novelty in structure is what I have labelled as 'Gymnastics Poetry' where the poem is based on a word, and each line starts with a letter in the word so that the word is spelt vertically down along the first lines.