A Lodgeful of Words

By Steve Whitmill

A collection of poetry that explores human feelings of love, loss and anger. As well as having an adult perspective, there are poems written as through a child’s eyes.
The reader might feel that they are actually IN a particular poem, as it taps into their own feelings and memories. The poems take the reader through a lifetime’s journey of experiences and emotions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665596169

Steve Whitmill

Steve Whitmill has been a psychiatric nurse and geographer, and is a tutor and father. His inspirations come from personal love and loss, places he has visited and his appreciation of a wealth of literature and poetry; his influences include Spike Milligan, Imtiaz Dharker, Michael Rosen, and Allan Ahlberg. ‘A Tentful of Verse’ is the second part of a trilogy which includes ‘A Caravan of Poetry’; the final poetry book ‘A Lodgeful of Words’ will follow soon. He is currently writing a book on the Victorian Asylums, whose influence might be recognised in some of his work. Steve is married and lives in Northampton.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/02/2022

ISBN: 978-1-6655-9617-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-9616-9 (e)

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Contents

The Airing Court

The Lothario

Quiet

The Dales

We Three

My Bedroom

The Photograph

Bomb Happy

Adulteress

The Local Shop

Two Christmases

Ungodly

A Maths Life

Lest We Forget

The Strange Girl

I Hate Greens!

Halloween Meat

God’s Country

The Fool and the Falls

Sea Monsters

The Exercise Yard

The Lighthouse Keeper

Soup

Missing you

The Miner’s Strike

Billy No-Play

English Rain

The Library

A Blues Story

Dishwasher Man

The Christmas Tree

Being Homeless

The Firework Display

The Right Words

Acknowledgements

This is the third and final poetry collection in the trilogy. My thanks go out to all my friends who have expressed their pleasure at the contents, and to Moulton Secondary School, and Northampton Academy who have kindly accepted my work into their libraries.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Andy Wheatley, my best friend, and to my dear uncle Jack Whitmill, who at 98