Whatever You Do, Just Don't by Matthew Stewart Long Pass People Who Like Meatballs brings

People Who Like Meatballs brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

It’s a reverie of times passing – ‘when peace was love/and love was free for all/who could afford it’ – a howl of mockery

A Tenderfoot is a novice

of poverty and blighted fate

Whatever You Do, Just Don't by Matthew Stewart Long Pass People Who Like Meatballs bringsThese poems refuse to be pigeon holed. Whatever they focus onmatters of the heart, football, the post Brexit marketplacetheir method is concise and yet searching, serious but playful. Their language is (mainly) English, their standpoint European. By day, Matthew Stewart is involved in the Spanish wine trade. But his commitment to poetry is just as intense. Line by line, he weighs the risks, invests meticulous skill, and finally invites the trust on