A well- produced limited edition from Talking Pen of James Oates view of journeys on the Tyneside Metro.

The poem opens:

In the tunnels

I catch my reflection
Staring half profile
Like Munch with cigarette

I yawn and my mouth seems to
Swallow my head
My hair thinner than I remember

Oates’ hits all the stations in this 280 line odyssey:

The above and below of Heworth
Monorailed at Fellgate
The disparity of the ways at Pelaw
Multiplicity
Metropacity.

When it works it works and deserves to succeed: congratulations to the enterprising Talking Pen and James Oates.

You can buy METROPACITY for only three pounds (cheaper than most Metro return fares) from:

Talking Pen, 12. Derby Crescent,

Moorside, Consett, County Durham

DH8 8DZ