This is Everyman Street
Where the brick is provincial red, London yellow
The brick granite brown and whinstone grey.
People come and go on Everyman Street:
Worker, shopkeeper, poet, policeman and teacher.
Sometimes their lives rhyme, more often is discordance.
Even those who bide a lifetime
Linger fleetingly, unique like strips of wallpaper.
Above the layers of an age
On Everyman Street.
There is an Everyman Street in every town. It's anonymous, familiar and home-sweet-home for winners and losers, for the lost and the lucky, the stuck-in-a-rut and the just-passing-through, for the butcher, the baker and the trouble-maker. When Anwar opens a corner shop he sets in motion a series of tragic events which leave Everyman Street and its inhabitants changed forever.
Everyman Street is a book of poems which is part soap-opera, part radio-play and part tragedy.
"when yer man Colton is good, he's good."
Cencrastus.
"tempered with a cool, razor-sharp insight into popular culture, and a passion for the eccentricities of working class life."
The Southern Reporter
Julian Colton lives in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders with his wife and three children. Previous publications include Something for the Weekend (2001), Two Che Guevaras (2007) and a book of ghost stories for children, The Looking Glass Years (2004). He is one of the editors of the magazine The Eildon Tree.
Author photograph: Fiona Colton
Everyman Street, Julian Colton
ISBN-13: 978-0-955402-88-3
Price: £7.95
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