URBAN BALLADS: a sparkling collection of narrative verse, collected around the faults, fragilities and triumphs of the individual as social being. Populated by character and situation, they may be read in quiet contemplation as a shared experience, a life identifiable, or as theatre in condensed form, which in performance will provoke a resonance way beyond the laughter burst of 'stand up'. Pulling certain aspects of modern poetry away from the puzzle page, URBAN BALLADS dares to create a popular forum by making a splash of language; finding profundity in the familiar, art in the observed, and all in words clever, beautiful and clearly understood. This makes for a shared delight in the spoken word. To be read alone or with a crowd. All there to be enjoyed.