Whitsun WeddingsThis collection of poetry has been written clearly, rythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand. The poems range across a whole emotional landscape.

Because what if you're a girl and you like cage fighting

we are excluded from 92% of the land and 97% of its waterways

Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia

Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes

and came face to face with his own past as he sailed north along his childhood coastline of east Yorkshire towards the Arctic Circle

how the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi

muses have brought emotional support

to the eerie disquiet of a desertedcity

a charismatic dancer born of the streets

she is all too aware of the dangers that await a woman who dares step out of place

the only one left to care for her six-year-old sister

And it may also bring him his big chance: he has been noticed by a coach taking a youth team to the United States