Missing Person, Nicholas Hogg’s debut collection featuring the winning poems from the Gregory O’Donoghue and the Liverpool poetry prizes, is published by Broken Sleep Books.

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Hogg’s poems seem to possess a hard-edged romanticism, a realism that has an uncompromising shine and excitement… lit with dreams, games and adventures. An exhilarating, credibly renewed imaginative space.

— Carol Rumens, Guardian Books

Cinematographic or filmic aren’t habitual adjectives when describing the vast majority of contemporary UK poetry, but they provide an ideal point of departure for discussion of Nicholas Hogg’s Missing Person... Loaded with the connotations of Hollywood, toying with our expectations of life and cinema.

— Matthew Stewart, Rogue Strands

Missing Person is an acute examination of working-class masculinity, violence and history set against the backdrop of post-industrial Britain. Spanning grey estates, Butlins, and smokey pubs, the poems navigate an economy of labour and loss. I love the way the poet calls out across time.

— Joe Carrick-Varty, More Sky

Nicholas Hogg’s intelligent, open-hearted speakers and beautifully observed characters notice the material in a music that convinces the reader they are in the presence of real poetry.

— Will Burns, The Paper Lantern

Some of the poems included in the collection can be read here.