Things You Find in a Poet's Beard Birgitta Wallin but hears the voices of

but hears the voices of her childhood in Guyana – her mother

From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End

Ali Bader: Excerpt from the novel The Naked Feast

of a thousand spurs catches the sun

Things You Find in a Poet's Beard Birgitta Wallin but hears the voices ofThings You Find in a Poets Beard is a collection of poems that have been shouted at children from schools to church halls. They are a curation of silly tales that have been illustrated and bound into a book. Perhaps youll want to annoy your family by reading them out; perhaps youll want to chuckle at them under the covers with a torch; perhaps youll want to stare at the drawings drawn by Mr Chris Riddell or maybe youll want to shout them aloud to