A 20th anniversary edition with a foreword byJames Dean Bradfield. In this new anniversary edition some of the poems like his popular, ever-evolving the guerilla tapestry have been reworked for 2021, taking in the contemporary concerns of Brexit, Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, Yes Cymru, food banks, asylum seekers and zero hour workers. 28 new poems turn their gaze to the personal, covering grief and loss, broken trust and marriage, betrayal and forgiveness, haunted by ghosts of both the living and the dead. An inventory of scars where love once lived.fuse / fracture also includes a selection of poems from his other publications over the past two decades: Darkness is Where the Stars Are (Cinnamon Press, 2008), The Aspirations of Poverty (Red Poets Press, 2017) and My Bright Shadow (Rough Trade Books, 2020) as well as some of his lyrics from James Dean Bradfields recent album Even in Exile (BMG Music Publishing, 2020). Brave and powerful. A chamber piece of pain. TheIndependentStriking enough to do for Welsh theatre what the Manics andCatatonia have done for its music.

The GuardianThoughtful, provocative and challenging, these poems engageand enrage. Peter Tatchell, human rights campaignerVery strong stuff. Harold Pinter'Personal experience distilled, raw, visceral that aims to connect not confuse.' James Dean Bradfield.