Book Description
Memory, Loss and Longing draws together Martin Togher’s work from the last decade. The poems include musings on north London events and people, as well as contemplations of his childhood and lost friendships.
From the Publisher
The book contains 30 poems which draw out the humour, banality and ironies of life. Partially influenced by his work as a housing officer, which brings Martin into close contact with a wide range of north London residents, and partly written by trawling through his own childhood memories, the book is a hymn to the complexities of modern life. He contemplates old men and the contents of their shopping baskets, the act of exchanging phone numbers with strangers, what to do with the presentation tin which wraps a bottle of whiskey, and the heat of summer nights.
