This chapbook consists of twenty gritty alternative small press poems by the Hastings, UK writer John D. Robinson. He writes with empathy and compassion about the sad, fucked up- and often short lives- of people he has encountered.
Here's an example:
ORANGE SKY
Beneath the orange skies,
like a speeding spinning
roulette-wheel of chance
or fate, workers made
their way home to food
and comforts of a family
as he fell backwards
30ft down onto the
basement concrete,
his back and skull
broken and death came
swiftly and he was
already numbed from
the world with cheap
rot-gut cider and the
songs of a hopeless
future:
the orange sky gave
way to dusk as the
sounds of a harsh
scrubbing brush
could be heard
ridding the red blood
from the concrete.
(reprinted with the permission of the poet)
Buy the book here: https://www.paperandinkzine.co.uk/product/too-many-drinks-ago-by-john-d-robinson
Not only do you get 30 pages of poetry but also a bonus beer coaster featuring one of Robinson’s poems together with a hand-made collage and all for only 5 quid. There's more: you also get 2 Poems-For-All micro-books by Paper and Ink Literary Zine editor Martin Appleby.
