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The Shed of Unsold Stock is not a poetry collection for people who read poetry. It is for the man who has never cried at a film but stood in a car park afterwards not quite ready to drive. For the woman who keeps a memory in a drawer she never opens. For anyone who has bargained with God, carried grief like inventory, loved badly and meant it well. Christian Frank writes the way people actually think - in fragments, in weather, in the silence between what we say and what we mean. These twenty-one poems move between a South African childhood and a northern English life, between fathers and children, between faith tested and faith held. They find the sacred in aqua-fit classes, egg rolling, taxi rides home and luminous running jackets. They do not flinch from doubt. They do not perform comfort. What they offer instead is something rarer: the sense that someone else has stood exactly where you are standing - and looked clearly at what is there. For readers of everyday life written with uncommon honesty.

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