Launch on Saturday 4th December, 2-4pm in the library at Mexborough Grammar School, where Massingham, Ted Hughes and Ian Parks were pupils. (Massingham and Hughes near contemporaries; Parks much, much younger.)

‘His voice is built from Yorkshire stone, from voices in the street …’ Ian McMillan

‘ one of the great neglected poets of the twentieth century.’ Donald Davie

‘an extraordinary poet: dogged but luxurious, restrained but brave’ Sarah Wimbush