Peephole Extravaganza

By Simon French

Simon French's third collection offers its readers a feast of original and sometimes startling imagery in poems ranging from the tenderly insightful to the boldly erotic; poems which allow privileged insights into so many different lives.

His pages are densely populated with losers and gainers, lovers and predators: a defiant eighty-four-year-old on skis for the first time, 'not wanting death to pick the cottage lock'; a homeless man surviving cold nights by sleeping at the base of a crematorium chimney; even a wind-turbine is brought convincingly to life.

Those familiar with Simon's earlier work will again encounter the same energy and apparently endless inventiveness which contribute to his unique style - from the 'Great Tombola in the Sky' which opens the book, to the gentle surprise of the final poem.

A 'Peephole Extravaganza' indeed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1068449861
• ISBN13: 9781068449864
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Coverstory Books
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"