Kevin Cadwallender is one of the most popular poets writing and performing in the North East today. His work has been published widely in magazines and pamphlets and he has performed his work at festivals throughout Britain and Europe. He is the poetry editor of Sand magazine and Sand chapbooks. His first full collection, Public, was published in 2001 by Iron Press. Baz Uber Alles is his eagerly awaited second collection.

Reviews for Baz Uber Alles:

You're in a pub.
Someone says: "Hit him, Baz."
A bloke hits you. No pain. No blood.
He's a poem, not a bloke.
You're in a book, not a pub. "Fight!"
Other poems crowd round like people.
That's how real this book is. Good fight.
Mine's a pint of poetry.
What're you drinking?"
- Nick Toczek

Red Squirrel Press is the publisher of two collections by Kevin Cadwallender: Colouring in Guernica and Sagrada Familia.

'Baz Inherits a Dad'

When Baz's Mam got married
Baz got a Dad,
I remember his tears
burns cut his mucky cheeks,
the first time he was strapped.

He showed me the welts
of skin underneath his jumper,
I told him my sister had headlice
to cheer him up.

We went to point at her
as she wailed under the fine-tooth comb.

He said,
'It's great Kev,
I've never had a Dad
who beats you like a Dad should'

I lay awake thinking about those words
but couldn't grasp the logic.

My head itched through thinking too much.

'Baz and the Black Rabbit'

and although he never acknowledged
the face behind him in the mirror
the soft coney eyes and twitching nose
it was always there.

in peripheral vision
not daring to look at his wife
in the shadow drawn night.

in dreams, a cloak of skulls,
rows of incisors like claw hammers

all the violence in him
cowering.