In the Gemini Café by Neil Campbell Anne Hine There is loss and struggle

There is loss and struggle here: the pain of miscarriage

on opening one box

paintballers and urban teenagers

The uncanny precision of its images

Berger the poet demonstrates an enduring commitment to the extraordinary lives of ordinary people

In the Gemini Café by Neil Campbell Anne Hine There is loss and struggleThis is a collection which embraces the urban and the pastoral, realism and surrealism, the work a day and the transcendent. Uniquely, it finds the poetry in the grim realities of modern work life, where people are 'dragged down by the nine to five,' as well as in moments of escape moments where music soars above the city, birds are 'images of freedom,' and hills might 'break into laughter.' Like 'a flash of meaning from a dream,' this is poetry which