Life expectancy begins to fall James Howarth and the ways that a

and the ways that a creative life can be both ignited and/or disrupted by the pressures of raising children

whom even the shaman was not permitted to see directly

Alex says “As a child The Secret Garden was one of my first favourite novels – one of the first I relished reading by myself

Chris Searle was born in Romford in 1944

A Skeleton in the Cupboard won the prestigious Latvian Literary Award of the Year (Children's Category) in 2019

Life expectancy begins to fall James Howarth and the ways that aIs your retirement plan dying in the climate wars? Are you getting on with things in the meantime? Life expectancy begins to fall is a book of poems about how it feels to normalise an apocalypse. It is not a call to arms, it is a poets book about the weight we all carry uncompromisingly curious, emotional and authentic.