This short collection of poems spans more than a decade - the period between 1989 and 2003. Their mood is something like a half-way house between my work in previous and post decades and is a sort of 'bridging period'. Therefore it feels right that this collection is released into the public arena alongside my very latest work: 'Gain of Function' - these two books will be a vanguard for my lifelong commitment to poetry and there is much more to follow, from both my past and current work. You may find an underlying sense of bitterness about some of the poems in 'Hope in the Heart of Hatred', perhaps bordering on cynicism - but it is a tooled bitterness, sharpened to provide explanation, reason and defiance - there are also many moments of humour here too and it is essentially a book about hope.

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