ISBN-10      0-9550023-3-8
ISBN-13      978-0-9550023-3-5
EAN            9780955002335
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This sequence of poems, both lyrical and elegiac,
charts a journey that begins in a Derby coffee
shop and ends who knows where...

Often startling, they unearth chance, opportunity,
compassion, love, loss and a collective ambition;
bold and daring they never flinch or turn away,
instead they look straight ahead-walk steady
towards the wire.

Several of the poems in this pamphlet  focus on
the life of  Alice Wheeldon. Alice lived in Derby
and was an active suffragette and socialist and
she, along with many others, was opposed to
conscription during the First World War. She ran
a successful second hand clothes business and
both her business and her home became a safe
haven for conscientious objectors on the run
during the war.

Alice, with other members of her family and
friends were imprisoned during the war for
supposedly trying to assassinate Lloyd  George
and Arthur Henderson.

But the larger preoccupations of this collection are
held in the astonishing and deeply moving
sequence of  poems on love and loss.  
Pamphlet