Half a Pint of Tristram Shandy contains within its covers three distinct collections:

'Talking To The Virgin Mary' – Jo Pearson
'Don’t Let Death Move In' – Daithidh MacEochaidh
'Tolstoy on a Horse' – Peter Knaggs

"Poetry should be constantly refreshing itself, constantly updating itself with new voices and perspectives, and that's just what this book does. Here are three poets with new angles on old themes, new angles on very personal themes, and, dammit, lines that I wish I'd thought of."
Ian McMillan

"Between the leaves of this book lies the mad boundless energy of the globe cracking-up under our very noses; it is a world which is harnessed in images of jazz, sex, drugs, aliens, abuse; in effective colloquial language and manic syntax; but the themes are always treated with gravity, unsettling candour and humour."
Jack Mapanje

Peter Knaggs is interested in how the ordinary and extraordinary interweave. His poetry is about storytelling and characters. Informed by modern poetics and culture, Cilla Black has as much to do with the outcome as Simic, O’Brien, Sweeney or Armitage. 'Tolstoy On A Horse' is a chronicle of his time spent as poet in residence of his own home, 75 Chanterlands Avenue, Hull.

Born into a one time mining family in Ossett, West Yorkshire in 1970, Jo Pearson was brought up on Merseyside, returning in 1984 with a Scouse accent at the height of the miner’s strike. Jo studied music and psychology in York and London and worked in Edinburgh as a music therapist.

Daithidh MacEochaidh: novelist, poet, publisher, man of letters. His first novel Like a Dog To Its Vomit is published by Route, and his poetry collection 'Don't Let Death Move In' features in Half a Pint of Tristram Shandy. Daithidh edited East of No East, a mini-collection of Bulgarian shorts which features in Route Offline.