Places to Sleep Sai Murray

Places to Sleep Sai MurrayPatrick Kehoe taught English classes in Barcelona for two years between 1978 and 1980. The poems gathered here re assemble that vibrant metropolis as a parallel city of the imagination. There are visits to other Spanish cities, a memory of a brief walk through Murcia some forty years ago, and more recent poems deriving from stays in Madrid, La Corua and Bilbao. Kehoes short lyrics are redolent of hopeful motorways, of entries and exits, of crossings

a certain filmic quality that pulls the reader up short

He edited the Worker's Weekly

He renewed his religious faith and had a wide range of friendships

Gary Allen

Together they form a collection that gives a full and inspiring taste of this poet’s pin-point way with words and great concern for common people – their complexity

side streets

and into new

experiments with form by creating a new

incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started

Yiannis Ritsos (1909-1990) was one of most prolific European poets of the 20th century

as they tell moving and universal stories of love and loss

Red is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets