"A melodic safari through a valleys consciousness." - Andrew Davies, The Gallowbirds From Ponty to Africa, he makes places come alive with both humour and the senses." - Mike Jenkins "Dave Lewis brings together the personal and social in poems and prose set in pubs, fields and bedrooms. Carefully observed funny and sad accessible and illuminating: a must read collection of verse and prose." - John Evans Shared pain, shared laughter, and we are all as one, and all the richer for the experience. A Welsh writer who can move the reader from the local to global, from Merthyr to Monterey, and back again. "Dave Lewis’ second collection, Urban Birdsong, is a work of enormous range and scope both in terms of its form and subject matter. The epiphanic moment at the story's close is expertly done: the headlights of a passing car beam into the restaurant, and 'the people were lit up, momentarily, clear as diamonds Mohammed could see for the first time in his life'. ".the world of Onions is an enclosed one specifically, a valleys curry-house at a weekend, in which we witness the clash of several disparate cultures, all of which the writer powerfully evokes with the briefest of sketches. Welsh writer Dave Lewis has just published his new book – Urban Birdsong, a collection of short stories, prose, poetry and even one song! The book includes ‘Onions’ which bagged a runner-up spot in the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition this year and the following praise from Stevie Davies and Niall Griffiths:
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