Publisher's Synopsis
Drawn from over 40 collections of poetry, The Man With The Gallows Eyes brings together the very best poetry and woodcuts of Britain's most outspoken and untamed voice in painting, music and literature. A dyslexic secondary-educated dock worker who was expelled from art school, Billy Childish spent 15 years painting and writing on the dole, carving himself out an international reputation as a man of integrity and a visionary seeker of truth.