Overheard in a Tower Block: Poems by [Paperback]

Gazing at the stars from five storeys up,smelling the bins from five storeys below.Overheard arguments,overheard laughter.A disappearing father and a Mermaid-Queen mother; statues that sing for flesh and blood; bullies who kick you under the table; perfect red trainers  and the things that lurk in the library&.Award-winning poet Joseph Coelhos astonishing new collection is a powerful and moving poetic narrative about growing up in the city. This slim volume of more than four dozen poems of varying lengths charts the narrator's course from childhood in low-income urban house to adolescence to young adulthood and fatherhood. Award-winning poet Joseph Coelhos astonishing new collection is a powerful and moving poetic narrative about growing up in the city.
From the winner of the 2015 CLIPPA poetry prize

Powerful collection about growing up in the city

Themes of family, friendship, myth, fantasy and school, melded into a moving poetic narrative

Joseph Coelho is one of the most exciting young voices writing today, with a fast-growing fanbase

A collection that straddles a line between poetry and story, between lived lives and magic

Edgy, evocative, though-provoking pictures by up-and-coming illustrator Kate Milner
Joseph Coelho is a performance poet and playwright. His plays have received special note from The Verity Bargate Award and The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition. He has written plays for young people for Theatre Royal York, Pied Piper, Polka and The Unicorn Theatres. Joseph has been a guest poet on Radio 4s Front Row and performed poems for Channel 4 and CBeebies Radio. His debut poetry collection 'Werewolf Club Rules' is published by Frances Lincoln and won the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award 2015. Joseph lives in Folkestone, Kent.Kate Milner studied illustration at Central St Martin's, and is an MA student in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin. Her illustrations and prints have been shown in London gallerilC?