Grace NotePeter Godfreys first collection is a book of reports from the front line, messages sent from over the border, beyond the edge of the map Madrid 1939, Oradour 1944, Hiroshima 1945, Santiago 1973, San Carlos Bay 1982. Its a celebration of those who like Dom Helder Cmara, Ren Magritte, Oscar Neimeyer, Wat Tyler and Jacques Brel have understood the glory of pedalling the wrong way on a one way street. And its a hymn to the patient humility of those who

he was present at the fall of Berlin

"There is an exuberance and energy about these poems – poems for the voice and for performance

This spellbinding new book mixes myth

from stars of stage and screen to sporting heroes young and old

Turas Press and SurVision

and the power of storytelling

persona poems written in voices unique as Peter the Apostle and Snow White

the disintegration of a struggling family – its ambitions and emotions worn thin – is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son

In her Selected Poems we see this and more — her uncompromising engagement with the politics of gender and class

displayed remarkable diplomatic skills in sustaining a

gatherings of dust

Say there's a skip in the street