Here is an adventure of the soul, a journey of self-discovery, and a history lesson about ourselves and our times. Though it might be difficult to imagine such breadth in one short book, The Colquhoun Chronicles taps into the zeitgeist. Colquhoun is a man who is forced by the circumstances of his life to confront himself. His new understanding is painfully wrung; this is an awakening both agonising and revelatory. In creighton’s work you’ll hear echoes of Coleridge and a touch of Keats. The poet has the spirit of the romantic about him-you’ll find beautiful verse within- but always tempered by a contemporary realism that is startling. Read and be prepared, like Colquhoun, to be changed.

Alan Walowitz, author of The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems.