Spit and Hiss by Mike Watts Em Strang ’ – Peter Sansom

’ – Peter Sansom

Sarajevo’s ‘neatened muddle of terracotta and concrete’ is twinned with the ‘church spires and rain-bright roofs’ of the poet’s former hometown

Frank Dullaghan

a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell

Sheenagh Pugh

Spit and Hiss by Mike Watts Em Strang ’ – Peter SansomFrom corrupt local councillors and lost weekend lovers to memories of youthful exuberance and present tense mid life panic, all life is here, in all it s marvellous bare arsed glory. Spit and Hiss is the fourth collection by Hull born poet Mike Watts. As well as carrying Mike s trademark brutal honesty and hardboiled insight, these poems betray a deeper and more lyrical maturity to Mike s current way of looking at the world.