Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt by Andrew Graves: Book launch

Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt is an honest and personal collection capturing missed opportunities, those unstructured moments and nostalgic, half recalled memories which skulk at the periphery of an increasingly confusing current world state. Graves circumnavigates his modern worries and presents his own uniquely crafted narratives which utilise estranged family members, eccentric strangers and forgotten Hollywood cast offs in his fascinating line up of unconventional protagonists. This is a dark, funny and bewitching paean to the cult, disregarded and devalued, a chaotic and comforting monochrome tome inscribed with both hope, fear and a thinly veiled longing for something better.

 Andrew Graves regularly performs his work throughout the UK. He has appeared on TV and radio on a number of occasions being featured on 6 Music’s Cerys Mathews Show, Inside Out and the documentary Evidently John Cooper Clarke. His first full collection Light at the end of the Tenner, was published in 2014 and his latest collection was released last year. He has performed with the likes of Sleaford Mods, John Hegley and Henry Normal and has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, BBC Radio 4, Edinburgh International Literature Festival and has recently represented the East Midlands for National Poetry Day.

 Praise for Andrew Graves

 “Performs a lovely set” – John Hegley

“A true poet” – Henry Normal

“Blisteringly brilliant” – Cheltenham Poetry Festival

“One of the gems of the fringe” – Buxton Fringe Festival

 Praise for God Save the Teen

 ‘Best collection I’ve read all year. Loved it.’ - Jon Seagrave

‘Poetry from the soul.’ - Mike Garry

‘These poems come with a discordant soundtrack, some are heart-busting; some are comic; some are both; all are great. They are armed with a chip-fork held aloft like a V-sign to the high and mighty’ - Martin Figura 

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