No Weakeners - by Tim Wells (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In No Weakeners, Tim Wells takes us through the streets that made him, via the landmarks of his teenage love life. We stop at pubs, gigs, behind the bins, in cemeteries and sticky-floored cinemas, to honour a shimmer of fierce and formidable young women. Spitting defiance, 'a million girls are born, they do not cry but kick.'<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Suedehead, pulp horror writer, and man about town; the UK poetry scene would be a duller place without Tim Wells. In <em>No Weakeners</em>, he harks back to the streets that made him--captured in snapshots of his teenage love life--with trademark chutzpah and dry wit.</p><p>We stop at pubs, gigs, behind the bins, in cemeteries and sticky-floored cinemas, to honour a shimmer of fierce and formidable young women. Hard drinking and hard fighting, they are nobody's fools. Spitting defiance: 'a million girls are born, they do not cry but kick.'</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"London poetry landmark" The Times Literary Supplement</p><p>"A neatly twisted line in rhetoric" NME, 19th May 1984</p><p>"Working class hero" The Morning Star</p><p>"Suedehead bard of N16" The Grauniad</p><p>"Thug" NME, 18th July 1984</p><br>
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