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Let the Quiet Ones Rise: Poems About Standing Up and Standing Out
- GenresPoetry
225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 16, 2026
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Robin Ince
50 books174 followersRobin Ince is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox.
In 2005, Ince began running the Book Club night at The Albany, London, where acts are encouraged to perform turns of new and experimental material. The club gets its name from Ince's attempts to read aloud from, and humorously criticise, various second-hand books which the audience brought in for the occasion. The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006. In 2010, Ince published a book entitled Robin Ince's Bad Book Club about his favourite books that he has used for his shows.
~Wikipedia
In 2005, Ince began running the Book Club night at The Albany, London, where acts are encouraged to perform turns of new and experimental material. The club gets its name from Ince's attempts to read aloud from, and humorously criticise, various second-hand books which the audience brought in for the occasion. The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006. In 2010, Ince published a book entitled Robin Ince's Bad Book Club about his favourite books that he has used for his shows.
~Wikipedia
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May 6, 2026
In 'Let the quiet ones rise', Robin hits differently, deftly wielding poems like thunderbolts against prejudice, bullying, bigotry and apathy.
Written under intense pressure of public scrutiny, at a deeply emotional juncture in life, some poems punch like raw pain from punctured wound. [*The best prescription for sanity.]
In others and in reflective prose, Robin is more lightning conductor, grounded libraries deep in books, decades of empathic interactions with folk from all walks of life and attention to our increasingly fractious world.
This is a powerful Collection, from a father's heart, on a tightrope walk over a ravine. These poems can and will unexpectedly connect at the deepest level.
Robin's creative capacity burns bright and sparks new zeal for authenticity, compassion and inclusion. I hope his irrepresible zest for living, writing and performing in this brief block life will keep cloudbusting.
Written under intense pressure of public scrutiny, at a deeply emotional juncture in life, some poems punch like raw pain from punctured wound. [*The best prescription for sanity.]
In others and in reflective prose, Robin is more lightning conductor, grounded libraries deep in books, decades of empathic interactions with folk from all walks of life and attention to our increasingly fractious world.
This is a powerful Collection, from a father's heart, on a tightrope walk over a ravine. These poems can and will unexpectedly connect at the deepest level.
Robin's creative capacity burns bright and sparks new zeal for authenticity, compassion and inclusion. I hope his irrepresible zest for living, writing and performing in this brief block life will keep cloudbusting.
October 1, 2026
Only connect!
And a poem about Grace Petrie!
And a poem about Grace Petrie!
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