The latest piece on my substack account is a second piece from my new10th and final full-length poetry book ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’.

As discussed before, Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’ was began in 2017 during the creation of my third book “The Birth of Autumn” which then took a life on its own afterwards.

The story itself talks through a series of memories told by an unnamed narrator of firstly of a friendship he had growing up with a girl called Sarah who came back into his life after over a twenty-year gap with the pair of them in deeply unhappy marriages changing everything forever.

Inspired by the clarify in Hugo Williams's book dock leaves and the expressive nature of Paul Auster’s poetry, this book will take the reader on a series of journeys up and down the northwest of England and beyond using their adventures in towns and cities to show how everything changes often without realising.

The second piece ‘Unplanned Weekend at Blackpool’ is one of the earliest poems written for this book and one of the starkest also talking of a weekend away early in the relationship for the couple when a night out in Blackpool went out in a very unexpected way.

The piece can be read here: https://andyn.substack.com/p/unplanned-weekend-in-blackpool

Hopefully the book will be out shortly.

Artwork is by Amanda Nicholson