God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker women'spoetry a human being who delighted

a human being who delighted in the sensation of the moment

Frost & Pollen unfurls as a sustained meditation by a mature poet’s hand

Okapi is a single

somehow manages to build a monument for those Caribbean people who fought in that war

God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker women'spoetry a human being who delightedGod Forbid They Hear Us Laughing by Bobby Parker is a savage, tender selection that holds fatherhood and addiction, love and shame, sex and violence in the same shaking hands. These poems move through council estates, underpasses, chip shops, pubs, pharmacies, church tents and school corridors with a voice that is brazenly funny and abruptly devastating, switching from punchline to prayer in a breath. Parker's work is stocked with the lived textures