About

When the river of desire has you in its unrelenting flow, raise this book above the waters and read a poem or two. Singh is sure to have navigated waters equally as treacherous and clambered up a bank somewhere to send us encouraging postcards. Her lyrical, sometimes satirical, even umbilical poems chart the chaos of a much-lived-in life. Themes of lust, fertility, sadness, work and spirituality are enhanced by Donald Greenfield’s whimsical black and white graphics.

Proudly published by Post Pressed

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Reviews

Fasten your seatbelts sisters, and hang on tight...Lesley Singh’s poem are brilliant... some smooth as a Zen carving, some rocky as a beach on Titan.

Gloria Yates

An angled look at a woman’s life-journey through pleasure, pain, and everything in between - wry, comedic, quirky, joyful, deft.

Bronwen Levy

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Extract

Willy-Willy Man

Sweetheart
you like a Very Fast Train
one whoosh and you is gone.
You like that once-in-a-lifetime 2 a.m. star
which hurtles cross the sky
too fast to wish upon.
You a folding fan
a passing hailstorm
a dissolving sugar-cube.
You a single brilliant line
with no poem to wrap it in.

Darlin, why whisk away your feast?
why snuff your candle?
You some kinda tennis
star - one ace
and you call game, set and match?
You like bein a deleted document
in my temporary file?
You great galloping gherkin
I wish there was more s-l-o-w about you
more of that possum who grunts every night
near my window round 9 p.m.
You be that possum, sweetheart?
Don’t be no whooshing train
be the whole journey.
Don’t be no snapping string
be the whole song
all night long -
that would be
so damned good for me.

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