“There’s an extraordinary warmth in Osborne’s verse fired by a rare ability to see joy and beauty in the commonplace” – The New European
With illustrations by Katie Pope.
Poems about supermarkets and the people who use them. We meet two paramedics in the crisps aisle, a butcher on the meat counter who is considering vegetarianism, love blooms as two people on their own with baskets say hi to each other. We join staff with untucked shirts sitting on kick stools stacking shelves and find that every aisle really does tell a different story.
‘The Alcohol Aisle’ was longlisted in the 2020 National Poetry Competition.
Food Banks was Poem of the Week in Bella Caledonia.
John Osborne 