The Toll

by Luke Wright

An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex;
a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete;, brand a young woman dreams of leaving home.

Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of parenthood.

In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut, Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain, speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908058420
• ISBN13: 9781908058423
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"