On February 12 in Nottingham, Michael Baron with co-editors Jenny Swann and Andy Croft is launching ‘The Night Shift’ an anthology of poems in three themed sections about the night, from moths via mothers to milkmen and more.

Illustrated by graphic artist Clifford Harper, & published by the busy Five Leaves Press (www.fiveleaves.co.uk) it’s the first anthology of poetry ever celebrating the awake world of the night, where things go bump, babies keep Mums awake, revelry and criminality are abroad, and lonely signalmen wait for the night mail.

This is the 2009 successor to Michael Baron’s ‘On A Bats Wing’ (Five Leaves Press) which celebrated the wondrous life of the bat. His edition of the collected poems of Ennerdale born Tom Rawling – ‘How Hall’ (Lamplugh and District Heritage Society) – has excited interest from poets and fishermen and may be the subject of a BBC Radio 3 or 4 programme later this year. Shortly Rawling will be the featured poet on www.listenupnorth.typepad.com

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