About the author

Si Philbrookspent twenty years working in the care sector for people with autism. He has also been a chef, a night porter, call centre worker and petrol station attendant. He lives in Brighton, UK. His poetry has been published in collections, journals, e-zines and magazines in the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK. He was shortlisted for the 2010 Erbacce Poetry Prize. This is his first collection.

Reviews

"Si Philbrook holds a rare voice, one that speaks the joy of discovery and the pain of experience with equal wonder. This is poetry of our times."
Kiersty Boon, author of "The Poet Busker"

"Si Philbrook's poems come with sharpened edges and unadorned utterings. Philbrook's unflinching pen asks us "Who will stop this fucking clock". Read it. You will never find a dull moment in this book."
Kushal Poddar, author of "The Circus Came To My Island"

"Si Philbrook manages to continuously paint pictures without materials and deliver the necessary tucked in between so many lines and stanzas. In short, Ordinary Words is that gift we always wanted to treat ourselves with. Go on!"
Gene Barry, author of "Unfinished Business" and organizer ofThe Fermoy International Poetry Festival

"All there is, all we will remember, Is the gentleness of moment..." 'Ordinary Words' is none less than extraordinary."
Don MacIver, author of "Journeys in Verse" and "A touch of Rose"