Paradise Glossed - The rants and ramblings of a Bristolian cynic

Paradise Glossed is a collection of poems a diary in rhyme - and a Bristolian book by a Bristolian author. It was written over the course of twelve months at a very specific point in Britain's history - the fag-end of New Labour and the height of the modern technological age. Desperately seeking the chinks of light amidst the 21st Century gloom of 'X-Factor' culture social networking mobile texting and super-rich corporations the author has a ball in letting off steam via this crazy log in which it seems no-one or nothing is safe - the Royal family Prime-Ministers The Matthew mobile phones balloons Simon Cowell (?) Drawing on topical and historical themes and with a strong local flavour throughout Paradise Glossed is the author's humorous take on an historic and infamous twelve months set between May 2009 and April 2010 which began with the MP's expenses scandal and ended with us nervously awaiting the result of the General Election......