A review of Ghost Estate by William Wall, Published by Salmon Poetry 2011

‘…& are we supposed to sympathise
when the gentry find themselves
in the same boat
or plane
as everyone else?’

From ‘Job in Heathrow’
William Wall is a novelist, poet and blogger. I better ‘fess up straight away that ever since I read William’s Booker Prize long- listed [...]

On Monday 20th of June the Launch of the North Beach Nights Anthology which features three writers Mickey Mc Rory, Mark James and myself will take place upstairs in the Crane Bar, Sea Road Galway at 7. 30 PM.
The book will be launched by Cork poet Billy Ramsell who has also written the introduction. It [...]

Enough is Enough
My ghost stepped in from the fog
to the theatre, it fished
out my tenner, was duly admitted
to the warm innards,
and in there it found that
when furious people
already have pittas ciabatas
and memories of hard chewed
grandmothers sodas
to pick from, when
the common old circus,
is rarer than teeth on an egg,
then, well then, to appease it
a good ringmaster [...]