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A second collection of 49 poems and 7 short stories by Nick Horgan. In similar vein to Breathing Underwater, Nick covers everything happening in the world, macro and micro, people and places, good experiences and bad experiences, memories, things unsaid, contradictions between what we see and what we know, connections between the physical and material and the emotional, spiritual, the constant change and comparison of modern life, and everything your imagination can open up, make connections, build up, revise, refocus, examine and explore to take you from the initial seed to a finished piece.

A good many of the poems in this volume have previously appeared in various magazines and anthologies over many years. If you keep Frivolous Verse and Worse beside your bed, it's sure to raise a chuckle when it's read.

In the mid-1970s an idealistic young lawyer uncovers endemic corruption in the heel of Italy. He flees his homeland before the Mafia can silence him, settling in Scotland and becoming a successful restaurateur. Nearly four decades later he and his daughters are again embroiled in a mammoth international police operation to nail the same brutal mafia clan and its collaborator, a prominent UK businessman. The novel chronicles a cycle of escape, betrayal, revenge, retribution and eventual redemption. A shocking revelation sets the scene for a dramatic finale.The story shows how chance events can hijack lives and spin them away from what seemed to be their set course.

I really want you to read this play. I could be polite and say it would be nice, but that doesn't really cover it. As news media across the world bear witness to youth campaigning against inertia on climate change, you may have wondered what you can do to change minds. If yes, this play calls on your help.The Edge imagines ways closed minds can be persuaded to open and hope prevail. Perform a miracle.Look with fresh and fearless eyes at planet Earth. Man's insanity has brought us to the edge, and along with us, everything that exists. The Edge foresees a coming disaster, its designated victims pitched in front of nature's fury. A violent flood sweeps down a hillside, savages a bridge, and engulfs a road. Like us, the chosen humans may dislike some views and identify with others, but as fellow passengers in one fragile boat, we and they are compelled to listen. "It's really compelling. I love the unorthodox setting and the characters feel archetypal, but not over-obviously. It's a knowing and fairly explicit allegory, but treated with the right amount of irony and self-awareness that makes it quite charming. The humour is also very good, I feel it will come across really well on stage, and although you can clearly write very snappy dialogue, I appreciate how you reserve it for the characters that would actually talk that way. There is often an Aaron Sorkin-esque tendency in witty playwriting to have everyone be very clever and funny, and it means the characters all speak in the same way, but this isn't the case with your work." Oliva Burgin, TV Producer

Match making is hard work and Cupid has been doing it for a long time. Too long in fact and he is now going through a mid-life crisis. But instead of getting divorced, buying a bright red sports car and marrying someone half his age, he has taken to the bottle with worrying consequences. While heading home from an unsuccessful blind date, Stella suddenly finds herself inexplicably in love with Bud whom she didn't know from Adam but had innocently sat next to at a bus stop. This poor couple, victims of a drunken drive-by shooting of Cupid's arrows, now have to be in love with each other without wanting to be. But all is not as it seems, there are dark forces at work. Pub landlords, bus timetables, Labradors and even actuaries all get a look in as this mystery unravels.