Trouble in the Heartland

Joel Lane's Second Poetry Collection Inhabits The Same West Midlands Landscape As His First. The Edge Of The Screen (1999), A Landscape Of Urban Decay, Violence, Loneliness, Abuse, Addiction And Chaos. "..and Yet These Beautifully Written Poems Draw Us In, Tell Us Their Stories, And In The End Offer Us Hope. Lane Is Crafting Work..for The Post-industrial And Brutalised Twenty-first Century, And This Book Can Help Us To Live In That World." Ian Mcmillan