BREAKING THE CHAINS
Poems and Performance Pieces, published by Word Books (ISBN 0-9520212-0-X) on the WordsOut imprint in 1992.
Breaking
the Chains was the end result of the gradual
growth of The Place
Where Socks Go and contained
everything from that book which
I thought had stood the test of time, along with a group of new poems
including the
sonnet sequence The sailing of the ark.
The
collection’s title came from the poem of the same name, written for and
first
performed at an event of that name at
It
sold out its first print run and rather than reprint I later included
the
entire contents in Welcome
to the Real World.
Riots
by Reebok, Blood by Benetton
The
journey of the Magi (cont.)
The
housewife's evening prayer
A
Laodicean estate agent writes