C S Hughes is a poet, writer, editor and publisher, who grew up in Australia's ochre bush towns and ocean blue cities. He traces his people back to Wales and Scotland, and Darug and Moorundee Country. He describes poetry as both an ecstasy and an affliction.

The Book Of Whimsies is a collection of gossamer
thin poems in which you will find summer days and winter
nights, dragonflies and storm borne kites, buttered scones
and rusting tin, lost ships and weary hearts, green hills and
untied shoes, cups of tea and sleepless nights, and floating
above a benign and melancholy moon. The poems are
whimsical, light, mysterious as whispers, sometimes sad,
sometimes high, but nearly always told with the poignancy
of loss, the echoes of love, and with the knowledge that a
whim may just as easily lead to dark and unexpected
consequences.