Red Squirrel Press invite you to the launch of Steve Urwin’s eagerly awaited second poetry collection, Hypomania.

FREE event and refreshments.

‘Steve’s poetry performances are filled with a frenetic, angry, joyful energy which pervades the pages of Hypomaniac. There are also beautiful moments of detached observation and realism here too. These poems speak to the “obsessed, the depressed, the dispossessed” but they also speak to everyone interested in the states of mind that we sometimes own, and that sometimes own us.
“Thank your lucky stars for endurance”, he says. I say, thank our lucky stars for someone who endured and writes this well about it.’
Kate Fox, BBC Radio 4

‘Hypomaniac is an extraordinary achievement, brave and honest without being merely confessional. These poems are perfect miniatures of bleak Consett-realism, swinging between a barely controlled rage and a huge and kindly sadness at the way things are. I can think of few poets who can write so precisely about despair.’
Andy Croft, Smokestack Books

‘Steve Urwin’s work is on the edge. It’s real, keying into the vulnerable, “the nobodies”. Like a road crash you want to turn away from but read on and on. It’s hypnotic. Read it now.’
Tom Kelly, poet and playwright

6.30 Wed 22th July at Gallery North Squires Building Northumbria University Sandyford Road Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 8ST (opposite Civic Centre) map at
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