This intriguing poetry collection travels in many directions but always with directness. Not quite a journey but a frantic tour of memory, love, loss, regret, hope, heartache and humour, it brings observations and feelings so raw and so deftly defined that the reader can taste, experience, see and touch them. Found in one collection a writer who, despite only recently discovering a willingness to share his work, understands both troubled souls and beautiful souls. As the title wryly suggests, these works express the simultaneous beauty, sadness and humour available in human life and, in particular, the smaller things in life.