Ver Poets on “Breathing”
15th April 2026
The Buzz on Dialling a Starless Past
Here’s a dizzying, lyrical and emotionally frank collection of poems, from a surprising source – the frontman of veteran south Wales entertainers Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band! An inquisitive and curious mind is at work in this little book, seeking for scraps of meaning in the mundane and the half-remembered. The Waster Land (A Babble Of Voices) recalls the T.S. Eliot epic, but through a haze of alcohol and drugs. The poet’s musical life gets a tribute in Soul Music, while the hallucinogenic Adrift In The Asylum recalls his experience of being on a psychiatric ward for drug dependency aged 17. Though more variation in metre and structure would elevate them toa higher level, these poems are busy dreaming about what’s out of reach, stargazing from the gutter. SP Price: £5.99. Info: www.arenig.co.uk
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