URBAN BALLADS : a sparkling collection of narrative verse, collected around the faults, fragilities and triumphs of the individual as social being.Populated by character and situation, they may be read in quiet contemplation as a shared experience, a life identifiable, or as theatre in condensed form, which in performance will provoke a resonance way beyond the laughter burst of 'stand up'.Pulling certain aspects of modern poetry away from the puzzle page, URBAN BALLADS dares to create a popular forum by making a splash of language; finding profundity in the familiar, art in the observed, and all in words clever, beautiful and clearly understood.This makes for a shared delight in the spoken word.To be read alone or with a crowd.All there to be enjoyed.