My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names

'So fresh, so frightening, so hauntingly familiar.' Fran Lock'Intense, intelligent and intoxicating.' Maggie SawkinsDescribed 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.