Reckless Paper BirdsReckless Paper Birds blends raw emotion, acute social observation and sharp wit to capture the gay male experience. The author of the critically acclaimed collections The Frost Fairs and Spacecraft, Brighton based John McCullough pulls no punches in this latest and his most powerful collection. These are poems of skill, joy and quiet musicality that reflect the conflict and complexity of being.

She flew back from New York to care for her

Company—may have been guilty of murder

Dear Angel of Death braids intimate and public thinking about forms of togetherness

Her latest book The Lavender House (2007) is due its paperback release from Headline September 2008

and a Blakean concern with the quality and integrity of childhood experience that clearly grows from his work as a storyteller with children

followed by Dreams for Breakfast in 2010

for a TV and internet-saturated age: ‘The Walking Wed’

absurd and anguished: a book for and of the times we live in

to be uncomfortably contemporary

with appreciation by Tahar Bekri

no one in Britain is writing better crime fiction

and educated at Middlesex Polytechnic