Light at the End of the Tenner

by Andrew Graves

The poetry of Andrew 'Mulletproof' Graves is raw and gritty, with a dose of adroit comedy, as he champions the underdogs and underclass. His unique worldview is tinted by the dark lenses of the coolest shades in the shop. Truly he is a troubled poet for troubled times.

120 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2014

Reviews

[Gretel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A consistently strong collection of poems on a wide range of topics. Graves writes about anything and everything, from urban deprivation in Nottinghamshire to astronauts and space missions to an elderly Elvis living in a trailer park. Graves has a great sense of rhythm and rhyme which I fully realised when I read them aloud. By some of the poems there's a little paragraph or two of backstory, the most interesting being the one beneath Far From the Beach which informed me about a much talked about BBC drama called Cathy Come Home. My favourite poem in the collection is Jeremy Clarkson Just Fuck Off, which will no doubt have readers go OHHHH at the end, just like I did.