It’s A Mad World But Funny
Wayne Dean-Richards collection of poems first published in Outsideleft.
It’s A Mad World But Funny is a collection of 18 poems first published in Outsideleft by Wayne Dean-Richards. This is a limited edition A6 version with cover art by photographer Garry Corbett. This edition is small, so please anticipate that. 40 pages including the cover.
The 18 poems included here are:
a father’s advice to a son being interviewed to work on the Coventry Ring Road – 1958
a shopping list and Lowry
alone
big dog training
buying boxer shorts in Next
lanyard life
melancholy
snowman
this house
fight in an art gallery
you cunts
road rage
different face
Dostoevsky didn’t have to put up with this
the cleaner
bailout
glue
are you?
Wayne Dean-Richards
Wayne Dean-Richards’ work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK and the US. Spouting Forth published a collection of his stories – At the Edge, and a novel – Breakpoints. Another story collection – Cuts – and a collection with Kalman Dean-Richards – A Box of Porn – subsequently appeared. A collection of stories – Money & Blood – was published by Culture Matters, a collection of poems – It’s A Mad World But Funny – by Outsideleft. A new collection of stories – Moments – and a new collection of poems – Days of Ordinary Madness – are published by Outsideleft Books.
Author portrait © Garry Corbett