The Lost Men

‘There is a discipline of vision in Suzanne McCourt’s poems, with a plain speaking style that is nevertheless beautifully and smartly stylish. When you meet the man whose ‘mouth is a steel trap rusted shut in complaint’ you won’t forget him or his type or the many other lost men in these breathtaking portraits of all the ways men grow and don’t grow, men whose mothers recall, ‘He was the most beautiful baby’. Pause and take a breath before you open this book because it will lift you up and rush you along in its swirling world of broken, heroic and beautiful characters.’

Kevin Brophy, author of Mr Wittgenstein’s Lion