You have to choose a path. Will you take the short or the long one? Which is the right one? What will be the cost to yourself and others? This collection of poems fixates on the antagonistic situations to be found if you are surrounded by machismo and tempestuous female entanglements while dwelling in a shared house with two men in the north of England in 1990s Britain.
While working as a press photographer, Hughes was able, via intimate auguries and confessional omens, to encounter places and scenes with a truculent nihilism. He is both a witness and a messenger, an outsider and a citizen, whose candour and curiosity expose the becrazed heart of a reckless young man balancing work, home, and women.