While trivia dominates the media, while so much that is dangerous for humanity is normalised, while so much that we are told is distorted in a post-truth world, six decades of Phil Coates’ poetry offers an antidote.
With fierce clarity and wry humour he lays bare the conventions of the modern world and creates a timeless stage where compassion, resolve, integrity and truth can play their proper role.
Sometimes playful and sometimes profound but always based in something real, his poetry reveals profound insights into what it means to be human and still have hope in our increasingly damaged world.