Merseyside Minibooks

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The 34 booklets, in this series of work by poets resident on Merseyside between 1982 and 1987, are being re-mastered in PDF format


1982
1 The Mountain Suite : Paul Evans
2 Songs of Lust : Hayley Fox
3 Squeezed Out : Harold Hikins
4 The Accident : Richard Hill
5 A Vandal Remembers : Alan McDonald
6 Doing Nothing : Brian Wake

1983
7 Sisters : Paul Donnelly
8 Waiting to cross : Mary Hodgson
9 From the day room : Kit Wright
10 Convictions : David Evans
11 Not the hand itself : Geoffrey Ward
12 Buchan : Dave Calder


1984
13 Alehouse Rock : Keith Whitelaw
14 No wilderness in them : Peggy Poole
15 See you on the Christmas tree : Matt Simpson
16 Jones : John Sweetnam
17 Circus in the Square : Dave Ward
18 Poems to Puzzle Jimmy : Francis Cairns


1985

19 The Substitutes Song : Tom Maclennan
20 Studies in Stone : Gladys Mary Coles
21 Flying to Iceland : Alasdair Paterson
22 Menu : Sid Hoddes
23 Meridians : Jim Mangnall
24 The Outcasts : Sylvia Hikins
1985

25 The Waiting Game : KP McCann
26 Frogley and other observations : RF Crawford
27 Bomb : Henry Graham
28 Flying Free : Alison Chisholm
29 Holiday Snaps : Adrian Henri
30 Where the Seaside Meets the City : David Symonds
1985


1987
31 Duboetry : Levi Tafari
32 Da-da-drum : Eugene Lange
33 Glints of Darkness : Raymond Tallis
34 The Frozen Field : Lynne Greenway 1987



Note: From time to time folk ask why poets such as Patten, McGough or Duffy did not appear in this series. The answer is that they were no longer living in Merseyside by 1981.

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