Mistakes in the BackgroundLaura Dockrill | Laura Dockrill May 1, 2011 Paperback: 96 pagesPublisher: Harper (13 Oct 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 000730059XISBN-13: 978-0007300594 Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008. Enter the weird and wonderful world of Laura Dockrill… I draw like a left-handed baby, I can hardly spell my own name and watching me use a glue-stick is a bit like watching a large bear trying to ram his own head into a pocket-sized cat-flap …no, really. But once the book is finished, when I can see the pages coming together, getting thicker and thicker, detailed and covered with stories and my imagination recorded on pages …everything at last makes sense (to me at least). I don’t keep a diary. “Laura Dockrill is a singular talent in the rave new world world of poetry.
Hell's Angels: Hunter S. Thompson "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels. Through the Looking Glass: ILLUSTRATED BY RALPH STEADMAN. Tell Me Lies: Poems 2005-2008: Amazon.co.uk: Adrian Mitchell, Ralph Steadman Review Adrian Mitchell is no more naïve than Stevie Smith, but like her he has the innocence of his own experience. … real inner freedom and the courage of his own music. Among all the voices of the Court, a voice as welcome as Lear's fool….Humour that can stick deep and stay funny. --Ted Hughes Nobody else writes like him. This is Adrian Mitchell, the British Mayakovsky. About the Author Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) was a prolific poet, playwright and children's writer.