Overheard in a Tower Block by Joseph Coelho Yomi Sode With impassioned eloquence and a

With impassioned eloquence and a sharpened focus on incidents of national mayhem and mourning

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these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as it’s spoken as well as how it’s thought: fresh

and what that meant to the combatants and those left at home

widening the possibilities of the form

Overheard in a Tower Block by Joseph Coelho Yomi Sode With impassioned eloquence and aA disappearing father and a Mermaid Queen mother; statues that sing for flesh and blood; bullies who kick you under the table; perfect red trainers and the things that lurk in the library.. Award winning poet Joseph Coelho's astonishing collection is a powerful and moving poetic narrative about growing up in the city.