Capsule book reviews in 255 characters or fewer. Ish. A reading diary (1st Jan 2019 onwards) by Eamonn Griffin.
Subtitled “a memoir of a childhood and the sea,” this is a kinda non-chronological autobiography, capturing moments of poet McMillan’s love affair with the British coastline and of working-class family holidays then and now. Light, whimsical in places, and charming and heartfelt. Cleethorpes features prominently, as it rightly should.
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My own books are here, if that’s your thing. Newest is noir thriller East of England.
Fee Griffin’s debut collection of poems. I have to declare an interest, ‘cos the poet’s family, and nothing comes between family, does it? So, this isn’t a review and shouldn’t be read as such, but it’s great and you should definitely buy and read it. Unless you only like verse that rhymes, in which case this isn’t for you, Grandad.
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My own books are here, if that’s your thing. Newest is noir thriller East of England.
East Yorkshire-based poet Wilson’s fourth collection: almost 80 short poems on longing and men, on charity shops and bus rides, on doilies and knick-knacks. Charming without stooping to whimsy, a touch melancholic, and both northern and working class.
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My own books here, if that’s your thing. Newest is noir thriller East of England.
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