Always the Love of SomeoneA tramp shares Grahams lentil soup in dirty pyjamas, in full view of the neighbourhood. Noi is an escapee Thai bride who goes from her uncles noodle shop via the toilets on Pattaya Soi 7 to a Malmesbury suburb before she learns how different Britain can be. A cynophobic lawyers brief encounter with an Alsatian that loathes him loses him a case and his wife. Always the Love of Someone includes fifteen stories on relationships: the nuances of class;

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Roger McGough…and John Arlott

with its elegiac blend of wonder and loss

Baroque sinuosity seems a matter of fevered family relations

The Spokesman

Precarity does something to us at the level of language

Rory Brennan

of this selflessly generous book

Todd Swift is one of the leading Canadian poets and poetry activists of his generation

A major voice in contemporary verse

And sing your breasts belonging to a goddess

In Mexico City she immersed herself in bohemian and radical life