Don't Mention the Night Steven Blyth While we are trying to

While we are trying to communicate

as part of the Pilot series for British and Irish poets under 30

known both as ‘Gino the Pious’ because of his fervent Catholic faith

exploration of the great abroad

hostile forest where strange things happen and translation serves to betray both sense and the senses

Don't Mention the Night Steven Blyth While we are trying toWriting 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