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""This is a collection that sustains itself admirably, not an inch of give in its tautly turned lines, not a scintilla of precision out of place. More than consummate craft, I think this tendency displays a rare patience and generosity of attention; the respect that poetry owes to the world. Here is a world we recognise, but few have the guts or the skill to set it down like this: so fresh, so frightening, so hauntingly familiar."" Fran Lock ""These poems balance deftly between transience and appetite, between the clarity of distance and the energy of immediate sensations. Whether the material is from memory or other lives like Chaplin's or Bowie's glimpsed through the curtains of their fame, whether the setting is the local pub or a thousand miles away, the gaze is unassuming and acute, inviting those sparks of connection when the subject looks back from the page with a life of its own."" Philip Gross ""Alan Humm's poems come from a place of affinity with life's outsiders: the drunkards, the dreamers, the brilliant, the flawed - the jugglers of darkness and light. An intense, intelligent and intoxicating new collection from a poet who knows the ropes."" Maggie Sawkins

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Alan Humm edits the arts journal One Hand Clapping. My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names is his second collection of poetry, the first being A Brief and Biased History of Love (Published by Culture Matters). The Sparkler, his first novel, was published by Vine Leaves Press in 2024 and his second novel, Rough Music, is due to be published in 2026. Visit: alanhummswriting.com

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