Don't Mention the Night Derek Bickerton

Don't Mention the Night Derek BickertonWriting about Nick Drake leads seventeen year old David to Nottingham, where, in the late 1970s, he encounters the formidable singer songwriter Kevin Coyne and, most weeks, goes to see local legends, Gaffa. This original, beguiling memoir weaves Belbins story,from teenage depression to becoming a best selling author, together with those of Drake, Coyne and Gaffa, drawing on interviews conducted over forty four years. David Belbins books include The

He published seven books of poetry

Words like trout

amidst the turmoil and trauma

novelist and currently lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan

Jamal Mahjoub – A short story In the Long Shadows

have documented all the writers mentioned in the diary

at a star shooting across it

and walking home

competes with dancehall

Prose poetry is at the cutting edge of contemporary writing

Returning on a troopship from Malaya in 1949

founder of Al-Adab publishing house