Digging Up The Bones

by Adrian Manning

this book, ‘Digging Up The Bones’ is testament to that fact: Adrian Manning is, and has sealed an ever-growing inspirational and respected presence in the small press for over two decades: his work can be found the globe over, both online and in print: ‘Digging up The Bones’ is a selection that has been snatched and stolen from 18 chapbooks of poetry and a small selection of ‘uncollected poems’: From the opening, brilliant and eloquent opening poem ‘The Poet In His Underwear’ to the final poem ‘A Mouthful of Numbness and Eyes Full of Light’, Adrian Manning has your attention. Sometimes the poems kick you in the face, sometimes you have to put the book down and savour some of the very moving, special and loving imagery: whatever Adrian Manning is writing about, he gives it to you, the reader, in detail: sometimes the desperate, hidden characters of this life appear, nature is something that Manning is very close too, is a part of and this book will become a part of your life.

128 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2019

About the author

Adrian Manning is a poet and publisher. He has had numerous poems, broadsides and chapbooks published in print and on - line around the world.
He is also the editor of Concrete Meat Press.

Reviews

[Kevin Manning]

The best book I’ve ever read.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

"If you're gonna write a poem--write it hot enough--to burn the page." I love to see that kind of passion in what I read. Adrian Manning of Leicester, England practices what he preaches. All the ghosts and memories are resident in his words, and in the darkness he writes of. He channels tough poets of the past, yet there's still a heart there that alternately yells and whispers its conflicts with itself. All of his poems counterpunch with rhythm, grace, and force. And yet this bull finds its way through the china shop with all contents intact. You can't ask poetry to do more than that.