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.
You can order directly from the Broken Sleep Books store. Also available with Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Hogg’s poems seem to possess a hard-edged romanticism, or, to put it slightly differently, 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
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
This is a book of depths and distance - the accruals of a whole life, well-lived, and the pleasures, wonders and revelation of travel, either geographic or temporal. We all undertake some of these journeys, but Nicholas Hogg’s intelligent, open-hearted speakers and beautifully observed characters notice the material, the implications, the hard truths that give meaning, and communicate that noticing 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.