Now available for a bargainous £2 is the fifth (point one!) in a series of chapbooks printed by Forest Publications: a selection of poems entitled, Cover Story by Dave Coates.

For the June edition of the Forest Chapbook Series, we worked with the University of Edinburgh Creative Writing MSc programme, highlighting one poetry and one fiction writer, and produced a separate chapbook for each.

Dave’s collection comprises ten poems, arranged in three loose sections – Life, Death and Belfast. Here is one from the Belfast chapter:

Giant’s Causeway

Mist crawled upwards from the surface,
the cluttered sky turned grey and we retired
from the tectonic sea and gathering smirr
to a pub you knew. Only the birds knew
what the sea had said, what it kept to itself.
Earlier that morning a hundred feet above the basalt,
I caught my breath and followed you
a few steps behind along the machair.
You gave nothing away as you gathered
palm-sized stones from a cairn by the cliff-face.
I named haresfoot, razorbills, chimney-stacks,
causeway tales. You sent skimmers over
the cliffs as I yammered, disguising
cover-stories in the tide’s howl and skirl.
…Read more!

Product details

• Title: Vol.1 Iss.5.1 ‘Cover Story’
• Author: Dave Coates
• Pamphlet: 16 pages
• Publisher: Forest Publications (18 Jun 2009)
• ISBN-10: 0955645670
• ISBN-13: 978-0955645679
• Amount: £2

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EDIT: SOLD OUT!