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Letting Loose the Hounds
Redbeck Press, 2001
24 Aireville Road, Frizinghall, Bradford BD9 4HH
ISBN 0 946980 89 6
£5.95

Martin Hayes
I was born in Paddington, London, in 1966 and have lived in and around the area the whole of my life. I went to school at Quinton Kynaston on the Finchley Rd and was asked to leave at 15 for disruptional reasons. I became a carder, putting flyers through people’s door, for a mini-cab company that my mother had a share in. After somebody reported finding a thousand cards chucked behind a steel bin by the side of the public toilets in West End Lane I was brought into the office and forced to work in accounts. All the while I was doing football and cricket and between the ages of 16 and 17 was offered schoolboy contracts by Leyton Orient, Arsenal and the MCC but because I didn’t have the dedication I passed and went out regularly down the pub to drink. The company took off at some stage and got called Phoenix Express and I became a controller there. I worked as a cycle courier for a year getting fucked and cunted by all sorts of people. I was risking my life delivering their parcels I thought and their attitudes have never really left me. I went back into the office in 1998 and am now a controller/supervisor.

Dave Tipton, Editor of Redbeck Press
Redbeck Press has been running for over twenty years publishing over 120 books and pamphlets, and for the last ten years has produced ten to twelve titles a year. He describes the sort of poetry he publishes as accessible, and does not like deliberately obscure poetry. Redbeck also publishes anthologies of poetry, poetry in translation and short fiction.