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Benchwarmers, Nigel Kent's latest pamphlet, gives a voice to those who live their lives at the margins, such as the autistic boy, the looked-after child, the young offender, the anorexic, the painfully shy. They are life's outsiders, whom circumstances have conspired against: they are the also-rans, the subs confined to the bench, waiting for the call that never comes. These poignant, compassionate poems make visible the invisible and invite the reader to make a connection.


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"Nigel Kent's poems in this collection, skillfully sketch out the lives of the dispossessed; those who '...lost life's toss the moment they were born.' His poetry vividly captures the feelings of loss and exclusion experienced by the disenfranchised child, and offers us a sobering insight into how our society fails many young people for so many reasons. In his prose poem, Cut, Nigel Kent sets the sharpest rebuke: portraying the brutalizing effects of ostracism in the psyche of young minds, 'I leave my mark carve my initials in entitlement's bark with the blade they made.'

A chilling yet haunting pamphlet of poems."

  • Josephine Lay, author of 'A Quietus'


"It's a recognisable feature of Nigel Kent's earlier collections that many of his poems notice and care about people on the margins of society, and this is also central to Benchwarmers. Through these poems Kent allows us a glimpse not only of the constraints, misunderstandings and sometimes cruelty his subjects face but also, in some cases, of how through their own empowered actions, and/or the love and attention some receive, they can - as two of the poems suggests - either 'speed away' or find their 'own way home'."

  • Phil Vernon, Author of Poetry after Auschwitz I and Watching the Moon Landing


"Nigel Kent takes the reader on a powerful and poignant journey with each turn of the page. Benchwarmers is a superb poetry collection. Highly recommended."

  • Patricia M Osborne, Poet/Novelist


"Powerful and unflinching. Compulsively readable. Defines class divides with sensitivity and dynamism."

  • Paul Brookes, poet, editor of The Wombwell Rainbow



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781913499341
  • Publisher: Hedgehog Poetry Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Hedgehog Poetry Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1913499340
  • Publisher Date: 20 Apr 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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