This anthology contains select material from Monday to Sunday, Forty Four, Istangrade, and Mutton Dressed as Poetry, as well as several pieces from No Man’s Land and the entire narrative poem The Promise.
If you’re familiar with Jan’s brand of poetry, it requires no further introduction, and if not, suffice it to say that you’re in for an experience. Humour, warmth, sarcasm, and wordplay are never far away, and there’s more than enough honesty and self-awareness to keep things rooted in the real.
Born and raised in Plymouth, England, Jan is a father, a husband, and a former poet. Readers enjoy his work for its directness and sense of humour, as well as its smooth, free-flowing prose.
Unsurprisingly, much of his back catalogue is poetry, with four collections, two narrative poems, two anthologies, and an instructional guide for children to his name.
More recently Jan has pivoted to fiction, starting with a collection of offbeat shorts before moving into darker territory, conceiving the Hartmouth Horrors series of standalone novellas, and it is on this twisted fare that he will be focusing for the foreseeable future.