CK Publishing

An extraordinary first collection that startles and resonates with freshness of imagery and turn of phrase.

A passionate, playful and powerful exploration of identity. Stung! is forty-five poems corresponding to the age of the writer, divided into five sections of nine poems.

The poems deal with a variety of subject matter including love, sex, politics, humour, adoption, death, cookery, therapy, civil war and gender and exhibit a range of poetical forms both traditional and modern.

This collection is by turns comic and poignant and addresses powerful contemporary themes.


Cover: Solitude by Ivan Leudar
Photography by Malcolm Allum