The Night Is Young

The Night Is Young is a lyrical collection of quiet contemplative poems that seek purposeful communion with ideas of universality. The poetry echoes with glimpses offerings and sacraments. The imagery flourishes then sleepwalks across the page offering shelter and sanctuary obliquely charged with a blend of innocence curiosity and poise. 'Fireworks pollinate the night into fizzing blooms of flowers falling petals dying in dark velvet greenswards seed and souls and flesh foundering in invisible places of pronounced gravity.' Extract from Behind the Scenes Whether Hughes is laying stone flags observing red mullet swimming in a harbour or a poppy field suddenly flayed he discovers the rich claret of thought in the macrocosm and the microcosm. As the sun takes the stairs to its throne in the sky absence escapism and thought become a heavy blinking eye inviting the reader to pick the locks of language friendship and society then breathe in the air where hunger and the foundations of the day unearth where the night is young.