Description
For Tom Pickard poetry is a free, and freeing, space. His pen ‘demands / complete autonomy’, and finds it as it explores both harsh and lyrical realities with a northern working-class sensibility. A lifelong counter-cultural figure, Pickard transcends formal and thematic barriers with a lightness of touch that is informed both by anger and by love.





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Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy
Will Burns
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Poems
Luck Is the Hook
The Bees
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith