A collection of uncompromising poetry observing the negativity and self-fulfilling futility of division counterpoised with the importance of care and empathy to explore what really matters. Includes a Foreword by Professor Mike Thomas, Vice Chancellor UCLAN. Fault Lines is Laura's second collection of poetry from Flapjack Press. "One of the country's finest poets, both on the page and on the stage. A spirit at once empathetic and revolutionary. Real words for heart-breaking times, a call to action!" - Attila the Stockbroker, poet & musician "A poetic battle cry. I'd like my teenage daughter to read these poems because, as women, we shouldn't have to wait for middle-age to claim the right to be ourselves." - Alice Nutter, ex-Chumbawamba, screenwriter & playwright "Defiant, furious, vulnerable, bloody-minded and wonderfully joyous, this volume encourages us all to hang on in there. Fill your heart. Read this book." - Steve Pottinger, poet & performer "This is poetry that does not just describe our world: it challenges you to change it. And it does so with such class." - Janine Booth, writer, poet & activist "Laura has the key quality to be a true poet: something to say. This book is of and for the times we are living through and ought to be on school curricula." - Julian Jordon, Director of Write Out Loud "Personal, political, social and relational. Her strength and consistency as a poet is raising sometimes difficult but often comic issues to our attention." - Professor Mike Thomas, V-C of UCLAN

About the Author
Laura Taylor was born into a working-class family in the North of England in 1968 and has challenged arbitrary forms of authority all her life. Now in her prime, she understands fully the potency of kindness in a world intent on creating division.

Reviews
"I give six stars out of five to Laura Taylor's fantastic new collection. It's even better than her last, which is saying something. Her poems for her father, battling illness, rallying and then suddenly dying, are simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking. The title poem, about a call centre worker's lot, will make you pause and think next time you are about to angrily or sarcastically dismiss the next one who intrudes into your day. Her poems for her boots and her breasts, the former danced into disintegration, the latter squashed by investigation, are moving and hilarious. 'Not Exactly Miss Jean Brodie' and 'Burn and Rave' are roars of mid-life defiance. But the absolute clincher is 'Revelations', which takes its form from Blake's 'Jerusalem' and its content from the angry, proud and politically divided working-class North West, where some blame the real enemy and some whom they're told to. A real poem for our times and the fact that it had to be written makes me seethe with anger. Buy this book. Please." - Attila the Stockbroker, review in Morning Star



Book Information
ISBN 9781999670702
Author Laura Taylor
Format Paperback
Page Count 66
Imprint Flapjack Press
Publisher Flapjack Press