Poetry Books

Book Synopsis I think the local community's supportive. Yeah, of like, good stuff. Bric-a-brac sales and choral singing and local elections and swingers' parties, not you and me messing about with a drum kit.Joe, Ross and Ellie used to be in a band. They were pretty good too, making waves across a rugged patchwork of pubs and clubs. They even had a song on Radio 2. But that was all a long time ago and the songs, the stories, the secrets are long since buried. Time has thrown the three friends far from their younger selves.Back together for one night only to play a benefit gig in their home town, they find a community reeling from a poisoning and a pandemic. And as they rehearse the old songs, the stories and secrets must also be excavated.The Band Back Together premiered in a touring production by Farnham Maltings in March 2024.

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Book SynopsisThe most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birthTrade Review"Dylan Thomas blistered and jolted readers thanks to an infatuation with words that became voracious love. It is impossible to overstate the invigorating influence of his work and the tragedy of his early death. John Goodby, a Thomas scholar at the University of Swansea, provides a nimble introduction to the poet and the man." -- Barbara Berman - The Rumpus"A beautiful addition to any library. One of the 20th century’s greatest poets." -- Brazos Bookstore"Thomas meant much to me and my generation, he is still singing in his chains like the sea—a force driving the flowers." -- Seamus Heaney"As I wrote fifty years ago, there is no one like Dylan Thomas in poetry today." -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Book SynopsisOne hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever. This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history's greatest poets. A definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth of Neruda's various styles, themes and periods.

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Book SynopsisTwelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night''s Dream, Macbeth, and The Tempest... in a way you've never seen them before.Away from the rest of their plays, Malvolio, Cinna, Peaseblossom, Banquo, and Caliban tell their tales, each in a solo-show written for younger audiences, by acclaimed playwright Tim Crouch. No longer burdened by iambic pentameter, these five can finally speak their truthFusing Shakespeare with meta-theatre, multimedia, creative tasks, and philosophical playfulness, Crouch reimagines these secondary Shakespearean characters in a way that is accessible and engaging to young audiences.Featuring an introduction from Crouch that explains the origin of the five plays and their performance processes, the I, Shakespeare collection provides a fresh perspective on some of theatre's most well-known stories, finding the parallels between the Bard's time and present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction I, Malvolio I, Cinna I, Peaseblossom I, Banquo I, Caliban

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Book SynopsisThis elegantly designed chapbook collects several dozen poems by the world's greatest poets on friendship, companionship, camaraderie, and intimacy.

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Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Gabbie Hanna delivers everything from curious musings to gut-wrenching confessionals in her long-awaited sophomore collection of illustrated poetry. In this visually thrilling installment of the inner-workings of Gabbie’s mind, we’re taken on a journey of self-loathing, self-reflection, and ultimately, self-acceptance through deeply metaphorical imagery, chilling twists on child-like rhymes, and popular turns of phrase turned on their heads. Through raw, provocative tidbits, Dandelion explores what it means to struggle with a declining mental health in a world where mental health is both stigmatised and trivialised. The poems range from topics of rage and despair to downright silliness, so if you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, just laugh until you cry. Exclusive bonus content: a collection of uncomfortably honest personal essays about Gabbie&rsq

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Book SynopsisModernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara’s first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for “disturbing social customs.” Along with the entirety of Howling, this volume includes all of Blue Cat, Hagiwara''s second major collection, together with Cat Town, a prose-poem novella, and a substantial selection of verse from the rest of his books, giving readers the full breadth and depth of this pioneering poet''s extraordinary work.

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Book SynopsisIn a celebration of women’s voices throughout history, this collection brings together powerful and diverse writing from around the world. From the Greek poet Sappho to Emily Bronte, the selection of lyrical work and written correspondence brims with illuminating contemplations on life, the nature of humanity, and one’s place in society. This is the latest anthology in a series of beautiful gift books of inspirational verse.

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Book Synopsis'everything i do kills you. i don't know if i love you because i have to or because i can't help it… i don't know if both of those things are bad.' It's one of those hot April evenings that feel like summer, and the heat is stifling in Sissy's London flat as she dances, unrestrained, beautiful, alive… But when sixteen-year-old Eshe arrives, powerful emotions come to the surface – and the two women are locked in a dance where freedom clashes with duty. babriye bukilwa's play …cake is a psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile? It was first performed at Theatre Peckham, London, in 2021, directed by the venue's Associate Director, malakaï sargeant.Trade Review'Claustrophobic and thrilling... babirye bukilwa's two-hander explores themes of race, class and sexuality with extraordinary subtlety' * Independent *'Stunning' * The Stage *'A devastating and necessary watch... Never before have I seen such a real portrayal of the trauma that is passed between generations' * A Younger Theatre *'Raw, uncompromising... A dark, twisted psychological drama' * London Theatre 1 *

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Book SynopsisA group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, come together onstage to share stories about their past, their present, and what might lie ahead. When This Is Over is a uniquely personal, theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination. It's about how we can work with chaos, and embrace our collective imagination as we prepare for a deeply uncertain future – together. Originally conceived by Company Three – and developed alongside more than fifty other youth theatres across the UK – When This Is Over is a play designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. As with Company Three's widely performed youth-theatre play Brainstorm, the script is a blueprint for an amazing theatrical adventure. This published edition contains a series of exercises and activities for schools, youth-theatre groups and community companies to create and perform their own unique productions, and also features the complete script of Company Three's version, which was performed at The Yard, London, in 2022. When This Is Over was named Community Project of the Year at The Stage Awards, and Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.

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Book SynopsisSpanning across centuries and genres, this comprehensive collection of poetry and quotes celebrates the LGBT experience in all its varied, complex forms. This moving and evocative selection features writings from a wide range of voices, including Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and many more. The words within this elegant anthology meditate on a variety of themes and subjects, including identity, love, and strength. Full of passion, wit, candour and vulnerability, Pride Parade is sure to inspire and resonate with readers everywhere.

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the fragile territory between remembering and forgetting, both as an individual experience and in the life of a society. If in the end all is subject to “time’s slow bleed”, these poems enact the capacity of the imagination “to pass through ancient walls” and to reorder failures long gone in time into more hopeful connections. Poems recreate those childhood moments when physical presences, such as the “great house” at Drax Hall provoke the “beginning of poetry”, the searching for what is “hidden in the dark”, and thence to a grasp of the history that society would rather forget. For while forgetting is human, the collection also explores how amnesia can be cultivated in society as a means of hiding the sources of contemporary privilege and economic power. Poems such as “Canvas” (about the images from English and American magazines that patch up the hangings in an old woman’s “tumbledown dwelling”) not only picture children “tiptoe at the rim of the world” but, without needing to say it, show those children as far more familiar with Garbo’s “bright blue eyes/ and shiny red lipstick” than with the history and meaning of Drax Hall. If there are echoes of Walcott’s poem where “all in compassion ends”, Phillips is no less compassionate, but much readier to see “History’s wound still bleeding / to its last drop” – a wound extending down to a powerful poem in memory of George Floyd. If the collection calls out “Speak, stones, bear witness!”, poems also pay tribute to those who in the rural village memorialised the lives of the unconsidered poor, who, like the village historian, Miss Lewis, speaks across the years into contemporary urban life “to remind me who I am”. Esther Phillips’ poems are always lucid and musical; they gain a rewarding complexity from being part of the collection’s careful architecture that offers a richly nuanced inner dialogue about the meaning of experience in time. Not least powerful in this conversation are the sequence of poems about Barbadian childhoods, poems of grace, humour and insight. When Barbados chose Esther Phillips as its first poet laureate it knew what it was doing: electing a poet who could speak truth, who could challenge and console her nation – and all of us.

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Book SynopsisIona Lee’s debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence, truth and tale telling. Characterised by a deep love of language, its music and its magic, these poems reflect on memory, the future and other hauntings. Wittily observed, this collection is an attempt to connect the stars into tidy constellations, and to join the tiny, inchoate dots of self into something traceable and translatable. Humorous and self-aware, gentle and philosophical, Anamnesis is written in the knowledge that in telling one’s life-story, one creates it.Trade Review'Dazzling. Witty. Playful. Wild. Ingenious. It’s easy to run out of adjectives when you’re describing Iona Lee’s astonishing first collection. ‘Is all fire the same fire?’ she asks. Definitely not. These are poems of such energy and brilliance they will continue to burn in the memory long after the book is closed.' -- John Glenday, poet'She writes elegiacally, hopefully... [the collection's title "Anamnesis"] is, like her poetry, clear and complex: remembering, an epiphany and not forgetting, as if the three were the same thing' -- Stuart Kelly * The Scotsman *'Her mindful treatment and adoration of language are like that of a chef handling their most cherished ingredients... deftly distils the collective consciousness into something precise and pleasurable' * SNACK Magazine *'A door, a window, a rupture? The familiar openings and outpourings of Anamnesis are made strange and sacrosanct by Iona Lee, a skilful poet with a mastery of language. This startling debut is equal part stained glass as it is blood-stained' -- Dean Atta'Iona's collection is a marvel. Full of beauty, wit, wisdom and surprise, delivered with the assurance of a poet who knows exactly what they are doing, it is to be treasured' -- Hannah Lavery, Edinburgh Makar'I was intrigued and delighted by the originality and wit, the here-and-now "peculiar Eden" of the world she creates. Youthful, sexy, sharp, ferally female, funny' -- Liz Lochhead'Iona's poems hatch plucky, ponderous and pulsing; or do I mean louche, lithe and lasering? They're all of that, maybe more' -- Michael Pedersen'Iona Lee is an exceptional poet; her work is articulate and perceptive and brimming with tenderness and authenticity. Anamnesis is compelling and beautiful, it is an exquisite poetry collection' -- Salena Godden'The standout voice of her generation, Lee performs open-heart surgery on the English language' -- Darren McGarvey'Artist and writer Iona Lee has long been considered one of the finest spoken word and live poetry performers around' * Snack Magazine,10 Best Scottish Books for 2023 *'the gorgeous, long-awaited debut collection from beloved poet and performer Lee... these poems are reflections and teachings, imbued with gentle humour and musicality' * The Bookseller *'a stunning debut... a collection that dissects memory, remembrance and the minutiae of life in ways that are equally eviscerating and elegant' -- Matt Macdonald * Glasgow Review of Books *'its craft is confident and assured... an immensely rich volume of poetry doing what poetry does best' -- Calum Rodger * Gutter Magazine *

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 2000 by Polygon to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson''s birth, this new edition contains all Fergusson''s finest poems in both Scots and English, and features a new introductory essay, revised orthography, a substantial section of notes and a glossary.Acknowledged as a crucial influence on Burns, Robert Fergusson was a remarkable poet in his own right. All his work was produced during a few brief years, delighting readers with its vigour and power. Although he wrote much verse in the then fashionable style of Augustan English, it is his Scots verse which, in its great warmth, humanity, satire, and hilarious comedy, is his enduring legacy.His work covers the whole gamut of human emotions and experience and his subject matter ranges from drunken encounters with the notorious City Guard to quieter reflections on pastoral themes. Fergusson died in 1774 at the age of only 24.

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Book Synopsis‘So I thought, since we can’t do Europe this summer, why don’t the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We’re going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana – all those places – experience some of Daddy’s heritage.’ The Lafayette family gather at their late father's home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale. Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate is a gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation of the great American family drama. Appropriate premiered Off-Broadway in 2014, and won the Obie Award for Best New American Play. It had its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in August 2019, directed by Ola Ince and featuring Monica Dolan. This edition also features his short play I Promise Never Again to Write Plays About Asians...Trade Review'A bracingly clever play, as twisted and pointed as a corkscrew... viciously funny and profoundly unsettling... Jacobs-Jenkins springs many surprises as his drama runs its suspenseful and gripping course... a magnificent achievement' * WhatsOnStage *'A provocative family reunion drama from the sublime Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' * Time Out *'A stunning act of theatrical subversion... ingenious' * The Stage *'An audacious, vividly atmospheric tour de force' * Evening Standard *'Exhilarating... Jacob-Jenkins appropriates the classic American family drama with results that are both gravely serious and mordantly funny' * Guardian *'A bitterly funny family drama with ghostly overtones that raise genuine goosebumps... an audacious, vividly atmospheric tour de force' * Evening Standard *'The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury… makes Appropriate land with the kind of thump you rarely encounter in the theatre' * Chicago Tribune *'A highly charged and ambitiously sprawling drama... There's no denying that Jacobs-Jenkins is one of the rising stars in the American theatre' * LA Times *'Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's very fine, subversively original new play... He enjoys his quarrelsome characters, and he has achieved the difficult feat of making them all both unlovable and impossible not to identify with... this remarkable and devious play allows us to draw our own parallels with the human sound and fury that fills most of the evening' -- Ben Brantley * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisTaha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011) was a much celebrated Palestinian poet whose work is driven by a storyteller’s vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Born in rural Galilee, Muhammad Ali was left without a home when his village was destroyed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Out of this history of shared loss and survival, he created art of the first order. His poems portray experiences ranging from catastrophe to splendour, all the while preserving an essential human dignity. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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Book SynopsisRuth Stone once said, ‘I decided very early on not to write like other people.’ What Love Comes To shows the fruits of this resolve in the lifetime’s work of a true American original. The winner of the National Book Award at the age of 87, Ruth Stone was still writing extraordinary poetry well into her 90s. This comprehensive selection includes early formal lyrics, fierce feminist and political poems, and meditations on her husband’s suicide, on love, loss, blindness and ageing. What Love Comes To opens up her own particular world of serious laughter; of uncertainty and insight; of mystery and acceptance. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The book has a foreword by Sharon Olds, who ‘had the joy of meeting Ruth Stone’ as a teenager, a later encounter giving her ‘a vision of a genius at work’: ‘Ruth Stone’s poems are mysterious, hilarious, powerful. They are understandable, often with a very clear surface, but not simple – their intelligence is crackling and complex… She is a poet of great humor – mockery even – and a bold eye, not obedient. There is also disrespect in her poems, a taken freedom, that feels to me like a strength of the disenfranchised. Ruth’s poems are direct and lissome, her plainness is elegant and shapely, her music is basic, classical: it feels as real as the movement of matter. When we hear a Stone first line, it is as if we have been hearing this voice in our head all day, and just now the words become audible. She is a seer, easily speaking clear truths somehow unmentioned until now… She has a tragic deadpan humor: love and destruction are right next to each other…’Trade ReviewHer poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory. -- Galway Kinnell

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Book SynopsisArt, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' Picasso, I Want My Face Back. The collection opens with a long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who, as Picasso's muse and mistress, was the inspiration for his iconic painting, "The Weeping Woman". The poems are almost interlocking reflections that echo the cubistic manner of the painting and allow us to enter the shifting surfaces of Dora Maar's mind and her journey of self reclamation.Trade ReviewNot only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. -- Gwendolyn BrooksGrace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal. -- Jeanette WintersonFrom her first collection in 1983, I Is a Long Memoried Woman, she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK. Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture, Old World history and myth, and the gritty rhythms of the Caribbean everyday… There is wit, irony and passion…real poise. -- Michelene Wandor * Poetry Review *

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Book SynopsisGrace Nichols’ poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. I Have Crossed an Ocean is a comprehensive selection spanning some 25 years of her writing. Her later collections are not covered by this selection: Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), The Insomnia Poems (2017) and Passport from Here to There (2020).Trade ReviewNot only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. -- Gwendolyn BrooksGrace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal. -- Jeanette WintersonFrom her first collection in 1983, "I Is a Long Memoried Woman", she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK. Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture, Old World history and myth, and the gritty rhythms of the Caribbean everyday... There is wit, irony and passion...real poise. -- Michelene Wandor * Poetry Review *Table of Contentsfrom I Is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983) 13 from One Continent to Another 14 Days That Fell 15 Waterpot 16 Each Time They Came 17 Taint 18 Sacred Flame 19 Without Song 20 Ala 22 Sugar Cane 26 Like a Flame 27 Up My Spine 28 I Coming Back 29 Night Is Her Robe 30 Skin-Teeth 31 Love Act 32 In My Name 34 Yemanji 35 Like Anansi 36 Of Golden Gods 37 I Will Enter 39 This Kingdom 41 Wind a Change 42 Omen 43 Holding My Beads 44 Epilogue from The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) 47 Price We Pay for the Sun 48 Those Women 49 The candlefly 50 Iguana Memory 51 Star-apple 52 Be a Butterfly 53 Back Home Contemplation 54 Praise Song for My Mother 55 Like a Beacon 56 Island Man 57 Spring 58 Waiting for Thelma’s laughter 59 Winter Thoughts 56 Two Old Black Men on a Leicester Square Park Bench The Fat Black Woman’s Cycle 63 The Assertion 64 The Fat Black Woman’s Motto On Her Bedroom Door 65 The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping 66 A Fat Poem 67 Tropical Death 68 Invitation 70 Thoughts Drifting Through the Fat Black Woman’s Head While Having a Full Bubble Bath 71 The Fat Black Woman’s Instructions to a Suitor 72 Small Questions Asked By the Fat Black Woman from Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989) 75 Dust 76 Grease 77 With Apologies To Hamlet 78 In Spite of Me 80 Wherever I Hang 81 My Black Triangle 82 Even Tho 83 Configurations 84 Abra-Cadabra 85 Out of Africa from Sunris (1996) 89 Introduction to Sunris 92 Sunris 110 To the Running of My River 111 Timehri Airport to Georgetown 112 Blackout 113 First Generation Monologue 115 Long Man 118 My Northern Sister 119 Against the Planets 120 Black 121 White 122 Wings 124 Icons 125 Hurricane Hits England from Startling the Flying Fish (2006) 129 My Children Are Movers 131 To My Coral Bones 132 I, Cariwoma Watched History 133 Other Ships 134 In My Sea-House 135 Palm-Tree Seductions 136 Facing Atlantic 137 Startling the Flying Fish 138 Is That You Columbus? 140 Our Cassandra 141 The People Could Fly 142 Many an Aztec Eye 143 Gold 145 Mother of the Mestizo 146 You There, Hummingbird 147 Old Canecutter at Airport 148 Cane Still Dancing 149 Hibiscus 150 Sly Anansi 152 Why Shouldn’t I 153 Not the Kind of Tree 154 Rain Music 155 For the Life of This Planet 156 Follow That Painting Back 157 Ink of Exile 158 The Children of Las Margaritas 159 Lip Shore 160 Footprints of My Arrival Poems for Younger Readers 163 Sun Is Laughing 164 Headmistress Moon 165 In the Great Womb-Moon 166 Baby-K Rap Rhyme 168 Give Yourself a Hug 169 Cat Shots 170 Cat-Rap 171 Sleeping Out 172 Me and Mister Polite 173 Turner to His Critic 174 Come On into My Tropical Garden 175 Mama-Wata 176 For Forest 177 Wha Me Mudder Do 178 Granny, Granny Please Comb My Hair 179 Don’t Cry Caterpillar 180 Ar-a-rat 181 Teenage Earthbirds 184 Book-heart 183 Glossary

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Book SynopsisPoetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as poetry, he wrote songs, stories and novels, plays, essays, memoirs and travelogues. He was both a restless innovator and a superb craftsman, and the Bengali language attained great beauty and power in his hands. He created his own genre of dance drama and is one of the most important visual artists of modern India. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore's poetry has an impressive wholeness: a magnificent loving warmth, a compassionate humanity, a delicate sensuousness, an intense sense of kinship with nature and a burning awareness of man's place in the universe. He moves with effortless ease from the literal to the symbolic, from the part of the whole, from a tiny detail to the vast cosmos. He is religious in the deepest sense, wavering between a faith that sustains the spirit in times of crisis - or fills it with energy and joy in times of happiness - and a profound questioning that can find no enduring answers. To him the earth is a vulnerable mother who clings to all her offspring, saying 'I won't let you go' to the tiniest blade of grass that springs from her womb, but who is powerless to prevent the decay and death of her children. This is the revised and enlarged second edition of a substantial selection of Tagore's poems and songs translated with an illustrated introduction, notes and glossary by the bilingual writer Ketaki Kushari Dyson, who lives in Oxford. Poet, novelist, playwright, translator, linguist and critic, she is one of the outstanding Bengali writers of her generation, and has published more than thirty titles in her two languages, including acclaimed scholarly works on Tagore.Trade Review'Dyson has succeeded in these new translations in restoring a sense to the reader of Tagore's real and remarkable genius as a poet. Short of learning Bengali one does not see how our sense of him as a poet could be bettered than it is by reading her versions. Her own skills and her own personality of course play a large part - One has the feeling of hearing Tagore's voice, as one hears that of any other great poet - an excellent end glossary of technical terms - if any translation can put Tagore back on the map where he belongs, this one should do it.' - Poetry Review. 'In her effort to lift Tagore's persona out of the shadows of mysticism, and present the poet his rightful place in the realm of contemporary poetry, Ketaki Kushari Dyson surpasses her aim - For all those who value good poetry, the book delivers more than it promises. It is vintage Tagore - It is not often that one comes across work of such calibre - ' - The Indian P.E.N. (Bombay) 'Among the English translations available of Tagore's poetry, Ketaki Kushari Dyson's selection I Won't Let You Go perhaps captures more successfully than any other the sensuous Bengaliness of Tagore's works, and the particularity of the weather, both inner and outer, in which the poems exist.' - London Review of Books.

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Book SynopsisA greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent). Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres and festivals, at gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, and with numerous appearances on radio and television. This new compilation shows the breadth of his appeal, with seriously funny, cleverly comic poems on everything from love, family, France, art and the sea to dogs, dads, gods, taxidermy, carrots, spectacles and - of course - potatoes.Trade Review'Fabulously funny' - Time Out. 'Scandalously talented' - Sunday Times. 'John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils' - Observer. 'A mainstay of the alternative comedy scene - an incurable entertainer' - Guardian. 'Consistently plain-speaking yet metaphysical, mordant yet mellifluous, experimental yet traditional - he speaks many a true word in jest - one of our most entertaining and communicative poets' - Michael Horovitz, Telegraph.

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