Humorous, serious and sometimes outrageous, Topher Mills' poetry covers swimming, love, work, dialects, sex, politics, death and everything inbetween. From the incidental ordinary to the waywardly imaginative Sex on Toast gathers Mills' best-known work together with a host of new and uncollected material. From the earliest poems here, written in his teens, to those written in sardonic middle-age, he sings of his life and times as the essential Cardiff bard.

Blurb Quotes From Previous Book Covers: 'Cracking stuff, pure Cardiff; Lenny Henry the wrong side of a Clarksie pie, Seamus Heaney on Brains (Cardiff's real ale), John Tripp on a bike. Mills has elevated himself to the position of arch Cardiff poet. Accessible, witty and direct.' - Peter Finch 'Mills is a kind of Street-wise Romantic, quirky, original and worth reading.' - Anglo-Welsh Review 'Mills represents the best of contemporary performance poetry in Wales.' - Poetry Wales 'Topher Mills is the greatest living Cardiff poet' - Ifor Thomas

About the Author
Topher Mills was born in Cardiff where he still lives. His writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies and been performed in many venues and festivals both in the UK and abroad. He's also worked in radio, television and film and has written review columns for The Western Mail and New Welsh Review. From 1997 to 2001 he was elected chairman of The Welsh Union Of Writers and in 2006 he won an Arts Council Of Wales Bursary Award. His previous books include: The Bicycle Is An Easy Pancake (Red Sharks Press, 1987); The Dancing Drayman (Red Sharks Press, 1993); and Swimming In The Living Room (Red Sharks Press, 1995).


Book Information
ISBN 9781912681877
Author Topher Mills
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books