Instead of an Alibi by Geoff Hattersley Marilyn Hacker Further inspiration comes from a

Further inspiration comes from a curiosity or need to make sense of lived experience and the wider world

as well as the further long-term health risks lurking in the background

here is a bold choir of voices demanding independence and celebrating their hard-won power

’ Linda France‘The language is startling

It is a passionately personal but also political work

Instead of an Alibi by Geoff Hattersley Marilyn Hacker Further inspiration comes from aIn his first book in over a decade, Instead of an Alibi proves that Geoff Hattersley has lost none of the sharp wit and incisiveness that has defined his brilliant and unique poems to date. Instead of an Alibi is a sharp and vital poetics of the lives of working class Britain in a post industrial, post capitalist landscape. PRAISE for Instead of an Alibi: What a privilege to wander once more into the county of Hattersley; heres Nev, just as I