Hot Strawberries

Ian McMillan: 'Here is a collection of poems shaped around a life lived to the full, and a need to explain and illuminate and bear witness to that life; this writing communicates feelings and conveys ideas through rhythm, through the urgency of converting the spoken word to the page, through the care taken to be inclusive and not exclusive.

'There is thought here, and it's the kind of deep thought that invites you in to swim around in it, not the kind of deep thought that drags you down like quicksand.

'The poetry scene is in good, safe hands at the moment, and Ron's are a pair of the safest.'