Dancing for England: 74 Collected PoemsPaperback, 28 January 2022

Melville Lovatt's poems tell the tales of regret, relational tensions, second chances and occasional optimism, with nostalgia for ages past, and disappointment with the way things are. His characters are the people you know opened wide, and dealing with aging and retirement, resentment and reconciliation, with a shade of sharp humour here and there - so says Nick Horgan in the introduction.