In the Gemini Café by Neil Campbell Sophie Robinson Many describe life in northern

Many describe life in northern England for a mixed-race couple

We examine the lives of civilians who are not aware of the impending danger

in the body and breath of poems

and eulogies to dearly departed pets

Published 29th November 2018

In the Gemini Café by Neil Campbell Sophie Robinson Many describe life in northernThis is a collection which embraces the urban and the pastoral, realism and surrealism, the work a day and the transcendent. Uniquely, it finds the poetry in the grim realities of modern work life, where people are 'dragged down by the nine to five,' as well as in moments of escape moments where music soars above the city, birds are 'images of freedom,' and hills might 'break into laughter.' Like 'a flash of meaning from a dream,' this is poetry which