The Tin Book

During the 1970's, Gordon Hoyles' poetry output was prolific and breathtakingly honest. With no money for printing, he turned necessity into a virtue and wrote a poem on the white enamelled side of an old gas oven. Page one of 'The Tin Book' was born. Other 'Tin Pages' were created and exhibited in locations far and wide.'Soon there were Tins in London and Liverpool and thickly clustered in many parts.'One hundred tins later, and they were exhibited together in the Precinct Centre Library, Manchester, in February 1979. This second paperback edition brings this extraordinary collection to a modern audience in a different context. We hope that we have managed to retain some of the energy and ingenuity with which these poems were first created.