This book once made me cry on a train. I don’t know what more I need to tell you. One of my favourite poetry reading experiences ever was reading poems from this out loud with my wife while whizzing along the rails, it was top of my list of books to stock on my site so now you can do the same! (but maybe with your own friend/life partner).

Laurie Bolger's Box Rooms shows that poetry can be your friend. With extraordinary warmth, the poems build into a conversation of friendship, communities, vegetables, pubs, tea, love and the meanings we find in these and in each other. This is a joyful exploration of self and community, of the ordinary and the extraordinary.