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Life Class
One of the major poets on the Wakefield scene and founder of The Black Horse poets, Michael Yates here presents a quality selection of his poetry.
These poems capture the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of modern life and present them on the hugest of canvasses.
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Marking Time
Poems of joy and regret. Poems offering a small glimpse of the modern world where lethargy can be symbolised by another cup of coffee and the expression of love is made via a comparison with sausages
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Not Dark Yet
Fifty poets present a poem each for a collection which raised funds for Wakefield Samaritans. A worthy cause and a great collection of poems. Inspirational foreword by Ian McMillan.
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After the Storm
The first publication from Currock Press. After the Storm charts John Clarke’s response to growing up, lost love, fatherhood, bereavement and beyond.
“New pain, new forgetting,” these are poems to interrupt the sofa and television of a Friday night |
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Too Many Villains
Our three intrepid poets: Jimi Andrex, John Clarke and Gareth Durasow, thrown together by fate and a fine educational establishment in West Yorkshire combined to produce this much praised collection and to kick-start the famous Red Shed Readings.
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Published to support the Sandal Poets virtuoso performance at the Ilkley Festival, What’s Love …? Is a canny combination of bright young talent and the sagacity endowed by having long teeth. Poetic nuggets chiselled from the bedrock of experience it says in the introduction before the writer was taken away for a lie down in a darkened
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Pete Lancaster, The Blue Bridge
The latest publication from Currock Press successfully launched after a reading at the Red Shed. These poems have their origins in the local territory of Wakefield, a landscape bearing the imprint of an industrial past, derelict and overgrown. As Pete says, "This becomes an image for my own interior landscape: memory, exploration, loss, and out of the collision, or even collusion, of these landscapes emerges the poetry.
Jane Steele, Natural Light
Launched to great acclaim at the Red Shed, Jane Steele's, Natural Light was a wow with the audience. Thick skins were needed as the residents of Wakefield were lampooned, but far from alienating her audience, Jane won solid support for the full range of her poems. Yes, there are poems here to make you laugh but also poems to make you feel angry and poems which drive you to the verge of tears. Jane's debut book is selling well and so it should.
