My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names

<p><strong>So fresh so frightening so hauntingly familiar</strong>. Fran Lock</p><p><strong>Intense intelligent and intoxicating</strong>. Maggie Sawkins</p><p>Described as a poet who knows the ropes Alan Humm takes us through a wide variety of topics - love; parenthood; foreign travel; David Bowie; Charlie Chaplin; his drunken father; pop music; Donald Trump; D-Day - in an impressive variety of styles. Here are sonnets sestinas haikus reverse haikus blank verse free verse pantoums and many more all put in the service of what Fran Lock describes as a rare patience and generosity of attention. Humm covers the waterfront with confidence and style. His is a distinct and assured voice that in the babel of modern poetry rings out loud and clear.</p>