Publisher's Synopsis
"Handled right, a line of poetry is a card dealt face-up, and a poem works like a hand of such cards. Graham Attenborough has got this down to a sharp art. He does it with snap and verve, not showy, but exact. The stories are rich and often wild, somehow rhythmic and jittery at the same time. Most powerfully, amid the chaotic swirl of the experiences it describes-squats, activism, booze, drugs, all the dysfunctional negotiations of life. The experience of reading these poems is profoundly satisfying-the brawling wit, the melancholy, the sense of fun and the sense of anger, and the way in which Attenborough drops a perfect line of self-deprecation or self-realisation at the perfect moment-makes us feel things, and feel them properly." - James Sheard
