Telling the Page

In his first collection of poetry, Paul Ebbs is concerned with love, sex and Yorkshire spiders. Alongside poems of doomed relationships, doomed bluesmen and doomed fathers there are poems used like suicide bombs, poems that rip themselves off the page before transforming into giant robots and poems about women who turn into birds. With humour and confessional honesty, Ebbs' poems examine the triumphs, the mistakes, the fantastic, the reality, and the ordinary beauty, of living. '"The most delicate things are held together by strength." Ebbs writes in 'Weakened', and the poems in this collection are both musical and tough; tender and tempered. They are, as he says, both snowflakes and steel.' - Paul Magrs. 'A beautiful collection of poems. Poignant, funny and passionate. A really life-affirming read.' - Siobhan Curham.