Bearing the torch of balladeers, Romantics, madmen and fools, Pete's latest book of poetry deploys its rapture with all the music of the fireside tradition. This collection riffs on centuries of devotional verse to help sing-in this age of re-enchantment. From the effusions of a heart engulfed in spring, to its ­­­­­­shivering catastrophe in the backyard of a boozer, Garden of Madness chronicles the clash of titans that dramas each human heart. Enjoy a constellation of exaltative incantations, and celebrate the quivering miracle of existence as you stand before immanent death.

‘Each of these poems is a spirit-mushroom, the fruiting offspring of Pete's vast and generous heart and his Trickster-inflected intellect. Visit word-heavens of praise-poetry and the murky underbelly of the human mind. May this collection inspire both heroisms of the heart and radical survival in this mad and beautiful Earthly garden.’

(Tom Hirons, poet and author of Sometimes a Wild God)