Full Description
A Requiem for Biscuit Town is a raw and resonant poetry collection about grief, identity, and survival. Told through the lens of working-class life, it moves through the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - capturing the heartbreak and resilience of lives shaped by struggle. These poems don't just ask you to reflect, they ask you to feel.
Unflinching and compassionate, this collection is both a reckoning and a refuge, a place where loss is laid bare, where class and mental health aren't footnotes, and where healing doesn't follow a straight line. Read it front to back, or jump in where it hurts the most. Either way, this isn't just poetry. It's survival in verse.
Contents
Part One
Working Class Fatalism
Diagnosis
Denial
Men Who Cry in the Night
Part Two
The Factory
A. B. Walker
Reading Gaol
The Obituary Pages
The Sign Above the Door
Pay Day
The Men Who Tend the Flowers
Part Three
Powerful and Tiny
The Patriots
5/11
The Gingerbread Girl
Eva
Part Four
Footsteps
You Exist
Freya
Part Five
She Walked the Elephants
Unlived
Salvaging
Icons
Autumn
Winter Lights
A Sad Type of Englishness
Inevitability
Kites on the Beach
