This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017.The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. "The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit" - The Guardian"Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations" - The Stage"The nerd triumphant" - Manchester Evening News“Distinctly funny" - Time Out