Contents: Swallow; Lucinda and her Strange Sister; Stormy Monday; Cider Monkey Frank; Celia; Eastway; Albert Salmon; Spring and; When Bob Marley Died I Inherited His Lungs; Scania Man; The Family Special Brew; On a Full Moon; Candlewax; Lard; Cacti; The 8.23 to London Bridge; Vodka Spider; The Ice Man Under the Bridge; Like the Movies; The Thumb; Hannah’s Hand; Breakfast in Provence; The Sulk; Cider and Pke; The Hunger of Bees; The Professor; The Reading; Afternoon Stories; The Balloonists; AVA; Spice; ‘Only you would put an empty bottle in the fridge; The Metamorphosis of a Race Horse Called Sea Deer; The Window Seat in the Angus Steak House; The Legend; Pub Fly; The Horse School of Drinking; East (Including 6 Short Poems); The Other Day I Bumped into Happiness; The Roadweeper; Things About Barry; HMS Big Market; A Beautiful Day; Pitch and Putt; Three Strawberries; Mince; Brown Ale; Ostrich; Beetroot; Cigars; Swan; Barbeque; Big Winter in the Summertime; Fog; It Was Blackie’s Birthday; The Medicine Man; Gay Derek the Taxi Driver; My First Spoken Word Batman; I Always Wanted a One-Man Submarine; Sometimes a Dog Lying by the Roadside; The Door Clicked Shut; I decided to Snooze Under a Tree; Her American Indian Name; Snowdrop; The Dog-Fox is Back; The Days Start with Revelation; At the TrackDavid Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal David Crystal

 

 

 

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In Just Like Frank, David Crystal approaches London's low life with a poet's ear and a painter's eye. Whether adrift in a world of drugs and porn, trapped in the dark recesses of family life or seeking solace in the manic
betting shop culture of South London, his characters engage in a search for meaning and identity that is by turns uplifting, harrowing and absurd.

‘David Crystal’s poems exhibit an intimate knowledge of life at its edges, a privileged knowledge that many poets can only pretend to know’
Ian Dowson, The Echo Room Yearbook.

The Ice Man Under The Bridge
On A Full Moon

To find out more about Ian Pollock visit
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 Contents: Swallow; Lucinda and her Strange Sister; Stormy Monday; Cider Monkey Frank; Celia; Eastway; Albert Salmon; Spring and; When Bob Marley Died I Inherited His Lungs; Scania Man; The Family Special Brew; On a Full Moon; Candlewax; Lard; Cacti; The 8.23 to London Bridge; Vodka Spider; The Ice Man Under the Bridge; Like the Movies; The Thumb; Hannah’s Hand; Breakfast in Provence; The Sulk; Cider and Pke; The Hunger of Bees; The Professor; The Reading; Afternoon Stories; The Balloonists; AVA; Spice; ‘Only you would put an empty bottle in the fridge; The Metamorphosis of a Race Horse Called Sea Deer; The Window Seat in the Angus Steak House; The Legend; Pub Fly; The Horse School of Drinking; East (Including 6 Short Poems); The Other Day I Bumped into Happiness; The Roadweeper; Things About Barry; HMS Big Market; A Beautiful Day; Pitch and Putt; Three Strawberries; Mince; Brown Ale; Ostrich; Beetroot; Cigars; Swan; Barbeque; Big Winter in the Summertime; Fog; It Was Blackie’s Birthday; The Medicine Man; Gay Derek the Taxi Driver; My First Spoken Word Batman; I Always Wanted a One-Man Submarine; Sometimes a Dog Lying by the Roadside; The Door Clicked Shut; I decided to Snooze Under a Tree; Her American Indian Name; Snowdrop; The Dog-Fox is Back; The Days Start with Revelation; At the Track